26Jul 2017

CLOZAPINE INDUCED CONSTIPATION: A CASE REPORT.

  • Kings County Hospital Center, NY, USA.
  • Ziauddin University, Karachi, Pakistan.
  • Behavioral Health, Kings County Hospital Center, NY, USA.
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This is a case of a 50 year old male with multiple psychiatric admissions and medication non-adherence with past psychiatric diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder. The patient presented with being disorganized and psychotic, aggressive towards family members and having side effects to medication which were agranulocytosis crisis, drooling and akinesia. Patient was admitted to the unit from out-patient department and was started on Clozapine 100mg per-oral in the morning and 300 mg per-oral at bedtime, Depakote 1000mg per-oral in the morning and 1500mg per-oral bedtime and Prolxin 5mg per-oral BID.Over the course of time the patient developed constipation due to clozapine, which led to him having small bowel obstruction and eventually exploratory laparotomy. Patient had no previous history of abdominal surgery.

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[Ali Mahmood Khan, Javeria Sahib Din, Faiza Farooq, Ashraf Farooq Arain, Mohammad Mustafa Ahmed, Shanila Shagufta and Abdul Mohit. (2017); CLOZAPINE INDUCED CONSTIPATION: A CASE REPORT. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Jul). 1863-1865] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

Ali Khan
Kings County Hospital Center, NY, USA.

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/4912      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/4912

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