A puzzling case of increased serum clozapine levels in a patient with inflammation and infection

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 489-492

  Espnes, Ketil Arne ^a   Heimdal, Kent Ove ^b   Spigset, Olav ^a,c  

^a TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b Voss Hospital   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

1 acid glycoprotein; antibiotics; clozapine; CYP1A2; drug interaction; infection

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLOZAPINE; CYTOCHROME P450; INTERLEUKIN 6; METRONIDAZOLE; OROSOMUCOID;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MONITORING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLATULENCE; FREEZING; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLOZAPINE; DRUG INTERACTIONS; DRUG MONITORING; HUMANS; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; MALE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866526910     PISSN: 01634356     EISSN: 15363694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/FTD.0b013e3182666c62     Document Type: Article

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