Clozapine Handbook

Clozapine Handbook

Stahl's Handbooks

Meyer, Jonathan M. (University of California, San Diego); Stahl, Stephen M. (University of California, San Diego)

Cambridge University Press

05/2019

326

Mole

Inglês

9781108447461

15 a 20 dias

Clozapine is the only effective antipsychotic for treatment resistant schizophrenia and other severe mental illnesses, but is underutilized partly due to clinician unfamiliarity with monitoring principles and side-effect management. This Handbook provides clinically focussed approaches and logic for clinicians to manage clozapine-treated patients.
Preface; 1. Initiating Clozapine; 2. Understanding hematologic monitoring and benign ethnic neutropenia; 3. Binding profile, metabolism, kinetics, drug interactions and use of plasma levels; 4. Managing constipation; 5. Managing sialorrhea; 6. Managing sedation, orthostasis and tachycardia; 7. Managing metabolic adverse effects; 8. Managing seizure risk and stuttering; 9. Fever, myocarditis, interstitial nephritis, DRESS, serositis and cardiomyopathy; 10. Eosinophilia, leukocytosis, thrombocytopenia, thrombocytosis, anemia, hepatic function abnormalities; 11. Managing enuresis and incontinence, priapism, venous thromboembolism, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, tardive dyskinesia and obsessive compulsive disorder; 12. The efficacy story: treatment resistant schizophrenia, psychogenic polydipsia, treatment intolerant schizophrenia, suicidality, violence, mania and Parkinson's disease psychosis; 13. Addressing clozapine positive symptom nonresponse in schizophrenia spectrum patients; 14. Discontinuing clozapine and management of cholinergic rebound; 15. Special topics: child and adolescent patients, elderly patients, patients with intellectual disability, pregnancy and risk for major congenital malformation, lactation, overdose, postmortem redistribution; Index.
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