Side effects of parenteral long-acting phenothiazines.

Side effects of parenteral long-acting phenothiazines.

There are other intriguing features of the present case. At no time was the patient hypertensive, in contrast to the usual situation in Conn's syndrome or bilateral adrenal hyperplasia. As Conn (1964) pointed out, however, the rise in pressure is variable and in the early stages may be minimal. The observations on blood pressure harmonize also with the measurements of plasma renin activity. In ...

Benzhexol and side effects with long-acting fluphenazine therapy.

Sixteen patients who had for some months been on fluphenazine enanthate injections (1-3 ml) every two or three weeks, with daily oral benzhexol (6-40 mg), were divided into two groups comparable in age, diagnostic category, and drug dose.Placebo was substituted under blind controlled conditions for benzhexol in one group, and both groups were regularly assessed by Simpson rating scale for extra...

Long-acting testosterone undecanoate for parenteral testosterone therapy

Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Anticholinergic Side Effects of Long-acting Antipsychotics

Background: There are few studies on the anticholinergic side effects of long-acting antipsychotics. They tend to be used with stigmatized, severely ill and non-concordant patients rather than first episode psychosis. Aim: To investigate prevalence/incidence rate of anticholinergic side effects of long-acting antipsychotics. Methods: We included all participants with schizophrenia, schizoaffect...

Endocrine side effects of broad-acting kinase inhibitors.

Targeted therapy in oncology consists of drugs that specifically interfere with abnormal signaling pathways that are dysregulated in cancer cells. Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) take advantage of unique oncogenes that are activated in certain types of cancer, and also target common mechanisms of growth, invasion, metastasis, and angiogenesis. However, many kinase inhibitors for cancer therap...