An Unusual Case of Delirium after Restarting Clozapine
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An Unusual Case of Delirium after Restarting Clozapine
Clozapine is a gold standard medication and drug of choice in refractory schizophrenia. Among many of its fatal side effects, delirium is less reported and inconsistently recognized by clinicians. We here present a case of delirium which emerged during retreatment with clozapine in a patient of paranoid schizophrenia. A patient diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, was restarted on clozapine a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1738-1088,2093-4327
DOI: 10.9758/cpn.2016.14.1.107