Left atrial thrombosis associated with antipsychotic drugs.
The authors report a case of a 36-year-old shizophrenic patient with left atrial thrombosis. There have been small number of case reports of antipsychotic drugs-associated thromboembolic events. All of them are venous ones. This paper describes the first case of atrial thrombosis associated with antipsychotic drugs.
Numata
Shusuke
S
Department of Psychiatry, The University of Tokushima School of Medicine, 3-8-15 Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan. snumata@clin.med.tokushima-u.ac.jp
Kato
On
O
Misawa
Hitoshi
H
Tokuda
Hiroshi
H
Kasahara
Toshihiko
T
Ohmori
Tetsuro
T
D000328:Adult; D014150:Antipsychotic Agents / Q000009:adverse effects*; D016279:Atrial Function, Left; D003328:Coronary Thrombosis / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy; D014463:Ultrasonography
D014150:Antipsychotic Agents