Korean J Psychopharmacol.
1999 Apr;10(1):99-103.
Clozapine in the Treatment of Dopaminergic Psychosis in Patient with Parkinson's Disease: A Case Report
- Affiliations
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- 1Department of Neuropsychiatry, College of Medicine, Chonnam National University, Kwangju, Korea. Psalmpsy@chollian.net
Abstract
- The psychotic symptoms, which developed in 69-year-old man who had taken dopaminergic medication for Parkinson's disease over 10 years, were successfully treated with low dose of clozapine. Besides a full recovery from the psychotic symptoms, the tremor, his major parkinsonian symptom was also decreased to the tolerable degree without requiring adjustment of dopaminergic drug. We report this case with a review of the literatures on the treatment of dopaminergic psychosis in Parkinson's disease.
