Cardiomyopathy associated with clozapine
- Authors
- Roh, Sung won; Ahn, Dong Hyun; Nam, Jung Hyun; Yang, Byung Hwan; Lee, Bang Hun; Kim, Yang Suk
- Issue Date
- Feb-2006
- Publisher
- AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC/EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING FOUNDATION
- Keywords
- clozapine; cardiac complications; cardiomyopathy
- Citation
- EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY, v.14, no.1, pp.94 - 98
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
- Volume
- 14
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 94
- End Page
- 98
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/181800
- DOI
- 10.1037/1064-1297.14.1.94
- ISSN
- 1064-1297
- Abstract
- Clozapine is an atypical antipsychotic agent that is more effective than the standard neuroleptics currently used for treating refractory schizophrenia. In addition, clozapine is a drug with few extrapyramidal side effects. However, clozapine is also associated with potentially serious adverse effects, such as cardiac complications as well as agramilocytosis. Clozapine-related cardiomyopathy has not been previously reported in East Asia. This report describes a 31-year-old Korean male patient with schizophrenia who developed dilated cardiomyopathy on treatment with clozapine. The removal of clozapine caused subsequent physical improvement. However, the readministration of clozapine for managing relapse of psychosis caused a recurrence of dilated cardiomyopathy in this patient. Therefore, this is the 1st report showing that the 2nd trial of clozapine caused recurrence of cardiomyopathy associated with clozapine. Thus, this report adds important support for a causal relation between clozapine and cardiac complications. In conclusion, this report attempts to raise awareness of clozapine-related cardiomyopathy.
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