This article reports myocarditis related to overdose of quetiapine. An 18-year-old female patient who used 25 mg quetiapine for anxiety disorder attempted suicide with twenty pills. The developed palpitations, shortness breath, pleuritic chest pain, and confusion in the emergency room. ST-elevation right bundle branch block were detected on D1-aVL lead patient's ECG. cardiac markers significant...

INTRODUCTION: Delirium, an organic psychiatric syndrome, occurs in 10% of hospitalized patients and is characterized by fluctuating consciousness and impaired cognition, perception, and behavior. METHOD: Charts of 11 consecutive patients with delirium were retrospectively reviewed. These patients were given quetiapine fumarate, a novel antipsychotic, as first-line treatment for their symptoms. ...

INTRODUCTION Punding is a complex stereotyped behavior, characterized by excessiveness, non-goal orientation, and repetitiveness. It is mostly associated with Parkinson's disease, and very few cases in non-Parkinson's disease have been reported. We report a case of punding associated with supratentorial ischemic stroke. CASE PRESENTATION We present a 70-year-old man with left posterior cerebr...

BACKGROUND Increased serum prolactin and weight gain are common side effects of atypical antipsychotics but few studies have assessed the long-term pattern of these adverse effects. AIM Compare the effects of risperidone and quetiapine on serum prolactin and weight over 12 months of treatment among female patients with first-episode schizophrenia. METHODS Eighty female inpatients with first...

Bipolar depression is more common, disabling, and difficult-to-treat than the manic and hypomanic phases that define bipolar disorder. Unlike the treatment of so-called "unipolar" depressions, antidepressants generally are not indicated as monotherapies for bipolar depressions and recent studies suggest that -even when used in combination with traditional mood stabilizers - antidepressants may ...

We assessed the efficacy and tolerance of switching to monotherapy with quetiapine fumarate (QF) in treatmentresistant schizophrenia with other antipsychotics, including atypical ones. QF treatment was maintained for 8 weeks. The PANSS scores improved at least 40% over this period. QF was well tolerated without the presence of serious adverse effects. Switching to QF in these patients may there...

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BACKGROUND Second generation antipsychotics (SGAs) are currently the most prescribed drugs in the treatment of schizophrenia. Despite their advantages, which include greater improvement in negative symptoms, cognitive function, prevention of deterioration, quality of life, and fewer extrapyramidal symptoms, the concern regarding metabolic abnormalities which might cause cardiovascular diseases ...