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Deterioration of parkinsonian symptoms following treatment of dopaminergic hallucinosis with olanzapine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

J. Rudolf
Affiliation:
Klinik für Neurologie der Universität zu Köln, Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 9, 50924 Cologne, Germany
M. Ghaemi
Affiliation:
Klinik für Neurologie der Universität zu Köln, Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 9, 50924 Cologne, Germany
S. Schmülling
Affiliation:
Klinik für Neurologie der Universität zu Köln, Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 9, 50924 Cologne, Germany
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Summary

The atypical antipsychotic drug olanzapine has been proposed for treatment of dopaminergic psychosis in Parkinson's disease (PD). We report on a 68-year-old patient who developed a severe akinetic-rigid extrapyramidal syndrome, accompanied by additional paranoid symptoms, following olanzapine treatment of optic hallucinosis in PD. Olanzapine may also induce clinically relevant extrapyramidal side effects in PD patients.

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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 1999

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