Lithium to allow clozapine prescribing in benign ethnic neutropenia

Clinical Schizophrenia and Related Psychoses

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 138-140

  Nykiel, Sherry ^a,b   Henderson, David ^a   Bhide, Gauri ^a   Freudenreich, Oliver ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARIPIPRAZOLE; CLOZAPINE; FLUPHENAZINE; HALOPERIDOL; LITHIUM; OLANZAPINE; PERPHENAZINE; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; ZIPRASIDONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; BENIGN ETHNIC NEUTROPENIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA; PATIENT MONITORING; PRESCRIPTION; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AFRICA, WESTERN; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; CLOZAPINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; GRANULOCYTES; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LITHIUM CARBONATE; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPHILS; SCHIZOPHRENIA, PARANOID; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953883896     PISSN: 19351232     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3371/CSRP.4.2.5     Document Type: Article

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