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Myocarditis, pericarditis and cardiomyopathy in patients treated with clozapine
Author(s) -
Wehmeier P. M.,
Heiser P.,
Remschmidt H.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of clinical pharmacy and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.622
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1365-2710
pISSN - 0269-4727
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2710.2004.00616_1.x
Subject(s) - myocarditis , clozapine , medicine , pericarditis , cardiomyopathy , cardiology , heart failure , psychiatry , schizophrenia (object oriented programming)
Summary Clozapine is known to cause cardiac side‐effects, including myocarditis, pericarditis and cardiomyopathy. Prompted by a case of clozapine‐related pericarditis in our hospital we undertook a review of the literature for reports of myocarditis, pericarditis and cardiomyopathy occurring in patients treated with clozapine. This is the first comprehensive review of the literature on this topic.