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KMID : 0376619930180040268
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Seoul Journal of Psychiatry
1993 Volume.18 No. 4 p.268 ~ p.0
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Two Cases of Haloperidol-induced Peripheral Neuropathy in Chronic Schizophrenia
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Chang Hwan-Il
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Abstract
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two chronic schizophrenic patients developed signs of peripheral neuropathy after receiving haloperidol One patient, who was a 25-year-old man, showed weakness in the lower limbs after faking 30mg/d for 2 months. The other, who was a 28-year-old
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revealed a left wrist drop after receiving 40mg/d for 2 weeks. The clinical symptoms and electromyographic(EMG) findings of neuropathy improved after withdrawal o dose reduction of haloperidol Thus, haloperidol may cause a toxic, dose-dependent,
reversible peripheral neuropathy.
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