Tardive Dyskinesias which Receded after Olanzapine

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Authors: H. Kučerová
Authors‘ workplace: Soukromá psychiatrická ordinace, Hranice na Moravě, vedoucí MUDr. H. Kučerová
Published in: Čes. a slov. Psychiat., , 2001, No. 2, pp. 76-79.
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Overview

The author presents the case-report of a 67-year-old man incl. photodocumentation. The patient istreated on account of a bipolar affective disorder - F31. He was admitted 22 times to hospitalduring the past 10 years and took many neuroleptic drugs and other psychopharmaceuticalpreparations in different combinations. During the last three years he developed (in particularafter haloperidol) severe tardive dyskinesias of the face and trunk which disappeared within 12days after olanzapine. This improvement persisted for seven months before hospital admission onaccount of another severe depressive spell. The author emphasizes also the social and communicative benefit of regression of TD. Concurrently also cognitive functions improved.

Key words:
tardive dyskinesias, bipolar affective disorder, olanzapine, haloperidol, cognitivefunctions.

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2001 Issue 2