OLANZAPINE INDUCED AMENORRHEA REVERSED BY SWITCHING TO ARIPIPRAZOLE- A RARE CASE REPORT-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

OLANZAPINE INDUCED AMENORRHEA REVERSED BY SWITCHING TO ARIPIPRAZOLE- A RARE CASE REPORT

Published:2021-06-01 Issue: Volume: Page:50-51
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Author:

Halder Ankit¹,Panchami Navna²,Das Abhishek³

Affiliation:

1. 2 year Junior Resident, Department of Psychiatry,DYPatil Medical college Hospital and Research Institute Kolhapur

2. 1 year Junior Resident, Department of Psychiatry, DY Patil Medical college Hospital Kolhapur

3. 3 year Junior Resident, Department of. Pathology,DY Patil Medical college Hospital Kolhapur

Abstract

Due to less extrapyramidal side-effects ,atypical antipsychotics use in psychiatry has increased a lot. But it is associated with other metabolic and endocrine side effects. Olanzapine is one such antipsychotic that less likely to cause hyperprolactinemia which can present as amenorrhea in patients.Here we present a rare case of olanzapine induced amenorrhoea reversed by switching to Aripiprazole.

Publisher

World Wide Journals

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