RISPERIDONE INDUCED LEUCOPENIA AND NEUTROPENIA: A CASE REPORT AND BRIEF REVIEW OF LITERATURE

Hematological abnormalities are frequently encountered during treatment with antipsychotic drugs. Most of these mild and no clinical significance, but in a small minority patients, hazardous, potentially life-threatening hematological effects, including leucopenia, neutropenia, agranulocytosis, thrombocytopenia, anaemia , leucocytosis, thrombocytosis, eosinophilia altered platelet function. (1). Clozapine is associated several well-known blood cell count (2), some case reports associate novel antipsychotics, such as risperidone leucopenia agranulocytosis (3). This report describes under Oral Risperidone suggesting the necessity early recognition order to prevent occurrence agranulocytosis. ( 1) .