title: Myocarditis in a patient on Clozapine: What did it?
abstract: We are presenting a case of 37-year-old male with schizoaffective disorder who developed myocarditis within 3 weeks of starting on clozapine for his treatment resistant psychosis. The patient also had a positive titer for Influenza A which makes it a diagnostic dilemma regarding the cause of his myocarditis. It may be possible that the myocarditis was caused by the Influenza A virus or synergistically exacerbated the clozapine's propensity to cause it. Currently, there are no studies establishing the link between the two etiologies. As clozapine can be the only option for patients resistant to treatment of their psychiatric illness and there being some evidence for successful re-challenge of clozapine, we consider that this patient could have benefitted from a trial of a re-challenge, however, was lost to follow up.
authors.affiliation: 1 New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center.
authors.forename: Sahil
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Munjal
authors.affiliation: 1 New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center.
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ferrando
keywords: Clozapine; Influenza; Myocarditis; Rechallenge