title: Necrotising colitis related to clozapine? A rare but life threatening side effect.
abstract: We report here a case of a 34-year-old gentleman who developed right-sided necrotising colitis after clozapine usage. Anticholinergic activity is believed to the cause. We believe that in patients who have been consuming medications known to have an association with necrotising colitis, constipation with concomitant increasing abdominal pain, distension and fever should be treated with a strong index of suspicion. Consideration of necrotising colitis should prompt expeditious resection of the affected colonic segment.
authors: Colorectal Surgery Unit, Department of Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore. quormeng@gmail.com.
authors: Quor M
authors: QM
authors: Leong
authors: Kutt S
authors: KS
authors: Wong
authors: Dean C
authors: DC
authors: Koh
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