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Re: Long term Olanzapine for BP....any comments?

Posted by SLS on October 30, 2006, at 7:20:18

In reply to Re: Long term Olanzapine for BP....any comments?, posted by med_empowered on October 29, 2006, at 11:20:24

> Abilify is different from zyprexa (generally not sedating, best taken in the morning, etc.) but it seems to have a low EPS rate and I don't think any cases of TD have been reported yet (although it is entirely possible this drug *will* cause TD, since it can suppress pre-existing cases of TD).

One case has been reported by the folks at Mass. General / Harvard.


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16816781&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum

1: CNS Spectr. 2006 Jun;11(6):435-9.

Aripiprazole-related tardive dyskinesia.

* Maytal G,
* Ostacher M,
* Stern TA.

Psychiatric Consultation Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA. gmaytal@partners.org

The low prevalence of extrapyramidal symptoms associated with atypical antipsychotics has led to their widespread use during the past decade. Aripiprazole, the newest medication in this class, has been associated with extrapyramidal symptoms (eg, akathisia) and with improvement of tardive dyskinesia (TD), but to date it has not been associated with the development of TD. We report a case of TD associated with the use of aripiprazole 15 mg/day for 18 months for refractory depression. Symptoms of TD resolved within several weeks of discontinuation of aripiprazole.

PMID: 16816781 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

 

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