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1. Tardive dystonia improved with discontinuation of trazodone in an elderly schizophrenia patient: a case report

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Yoshinori Kadota, Hikaru Hori, Michiko Takayama, Chikako Okabe, and Naotoshi Ohara

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Trazodone, Tardive dystonia, Schizophrenia, Delirium, Insomnia, Psychiatry, RC435-571
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Abstract Background Tardive dystonia associated with antidepressant use is rare and often under-recognized. We had an experience with trazodone, which is used for delirium and insomnia prescribed in general hospital, inducing tardive dystonia. Case presentation A 61-year-old Japanese woman had been treated for schizophrenia. She was moved to general hospital because of consciousness disturbance. She was prescribed trazodone (25 mg/day) for delirium and insomnia. After she was discharged, she returned to the psychiatric hospital with tardive dystonia. Her dystonia symptoms improved with 3 days of discontinuing trazodone. Conclusion In the present case, long-term use of trazodone induced tardive dystonia. Discontinuing trazodone rapidly improved tardive dystonia.

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2020
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2. Tardive dystonia improved with discontinuation of trazodone in an elderly schizophrenia patient: a case report.

Author

Kadota, Yoshinori, Hori, Hikaru, Takayama, Michiko, Okabe, Chikako, and Ohara, Naotoshi

Subjects
DRUG therapy for schizophrenia, DELIRIUM, INSOMNIA, TARDIVE dyskinesia, TERMINATION of treatment, TRAZODONE, OLD age
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Background: Tardive dystonia associated with antidepressant use is rare and often under-recognized. We had an experience with trazodone, which is used for delirium and insomnia prescribed in general hospital, inducing tardive dystonia. Case presentation: A 61-year-old Japanese woman had been treated for schizophrenia. She was moved to general hospital because of consciousness disturbance. She was prescribed trazodone (25 mg/day) for delirium and insomnia. After she was discharged, she returned to the psychiatric hospital with tardive dystonia. Her dystonia symptoms improved with 3 days of discontinuing trazodone. Conclusion: In the present case, long-term use of trazodone induced tardive dystonia. Discontinuing trazodone rapidly improved tardive dystonia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2020
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3. Tardive dystonia improved with discontinuation of trazodone in an elderly schizophrenia patient: a case report

Author

Michiko Takayama, Yoshinori Kadota, Naotoshi Ohara, Chikako Okabe, and Hikaru Hori

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, Pediatrics, congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities, Insomnia, lcsh:RC435-571, Case Report, Tardive dystonia, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, lcsh:Psychiatry, mental disorders, medicine, otorhinolaryngologic diseases, Psychiatric hospital, Psychiatry, Dystonia, business.industry, Trazodone, Delirium, medicine.disease, 030227 psychiatry, Discontinuation, nervous system diseases, Psychiatry and Mental health, Schizophrenia, Antidepressant, medicine.symptom, business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Geriatric psychiatry, medicine.drug
Abstract

Background Tardive dystonia associated with antidepressant use is rare and often under-recognized. We had an experience with trazodone, which is used for delirium and insomnia prescribed in general hospital, inducing tardive dystonia. Case presentation A 61-year-old Japanese woman had been treated for schizophrenia. She was moved to general hospital because of consciousness disturbance. She was prescribed trazodone (25 mg/day) for delirium and insomnia. After she was discharged, she returned to the psychiatric hospital with tardive dystonia. Her dystonia symptoms improved with 3 days of discontinuing trazodone. Conclusion In the present case, long-term use of trazodone induced tardive dystonia. Discontinuing trazodone rapidly improved tardive dystonia.

Published
2020

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