Open AccessDose-dependent galactorrhea with quetiapine
Author(s) -
Sujata Sethi,
Manisha Sharma,
Malik Amit
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5545.74315
Subject(s) - quetiapine , galactorrhea , medicine , quetiapine fumarate , atypical antipsychotic , prolactin , dose , antipsychotic , pharmacology , pediatrics , psychiatry , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , hormone
Quetiapine is an atypical antipsychotic agent with minimal propensity to induce hyperprolactinemia in standard therapeutic dosages. Despite that quetiapine is considered to be a prolactin-sparing atypical antipsychotic, hyperprolactinemia with related side effects may rarely be encountered in susceptible individuals. We report a case of quetiapine-induced hyperprolactinemia and galactorrhea in an adult female, which was dose-dependent.