Dose-dependent galactorrhea with quetiapine.
Quetiapine is an atypical antipsychotic agent with minimal propensity to induce hyperprolactinemia in standard therapeutic dosages. Despite that quetiapine is considered to be a prolactin-sparing atypical antipsychotic, hyperprolactinemia with related side effects may rarely be encountered in susceptible individuals. We report a case of quetiapine-induced hyperprolactinemia and galactorrhea in an adult female, which was dose-dependent.
Department of Psychiatry, Pt. BD Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana, India.
Sujata
S
Sethi
Manisha
M
Sharma
Amit
A
Malik
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