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KMID : 0368819960350030715
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Journal of the Korean Neuropsychiatr Association
1996 Volume.35 No. 3 p.715 ~ p.718
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A Case of Priapism Induced by Psychotropic Drugs in Patient with chronic Schizophrenia
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Abstract
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Priapism is rare but serious adverse effect of psychotropic medication from their peripheral alpha-adrenergic blocking action, perhaps directly blocking the sympathetic impulse for detumescence. Out patient with chronic schizophrenia who admitted
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urologic department developed this side effect during treatment with oral antipsychotics, thioridazine, haloperidol and antidepressant, trazodone. Awareness of these association and serious consequences of this disorder may be helpful to
clinician
in
choosing psychotropic medication that minimize the risk of developing priapism.
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