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Akathisia as a side effect of antipsychotic treatment with quetiapine in a patient with Parkinson's disease

✍ Scribed by Christian Prueter; Benedikt Habermeyer; Christine Norra; Christoph M. Kosinski

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
43 KB
Volume
18
Category
Article
ISSN
0885-3185

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Abstract

Due to its low profile for extrapyramidal side‐effects, quetiapine has become an alternative to clozapine in the treatment of dopamimetic psychosis in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). We describe the case of a patient with PD who developed severe akathisia, a common complication with classical antipsychotics, with quetiapine. © 2003 Movement Disorder Society

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