Changes in blood parameters may occur during the use of psychiatric drugs. In such cases, general condition patient and are closely monitored treatment is discontinued or medication changed. The purpose this case report was to be alert possibility side effects as neutropenia due antipsychotic drugs draw attention management these patients

Typical antipsychotic drugs, such as haloperidol and chlorpromazine, increase synthesis of the neuropeptide neurotensin (NT) in both the striatum and the nucleus accumbens, whereas atypical antipsychotic drugs, such as clozapine and olanzapine, do so only in the nucleus accumbens. By using in vivo microdialysis, we now report that acute administration of haloperidol, clozapine, or olanzapine fa...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether antipsychotic drugs are associated with an increased risk of venous thromboembolism, and to examine risks by type of antipsychotic, potency, and dose. DESIGN Population based nested case-control study. SETTING The UK QResearch primary care database. PARTICIPANTS Patients (cases) with a first ever record of venous thromboembolism between 1 January 1996 and 1 ...