Rapid Titration and Decreased Clozapine Clearance May Help Explain Five Cases of Clozapine-Induced Myocarditis in a New York Hospital

Psychosomatics. 2020 Jan-Feb;61(1):102-103. doi: 10.1016/j.psym.2019.08.008. Epub 2019 Sep 4.

Authors

Jose de Leon¹, David W Rhee², Andrea Kondracke², Jillian Diuguid-Gerber²

Affiliations

¹ Mental Health Research Center, Eastern State Hospital, Lexington, KY; Psychiatry and Neurosciences Research Group (CTS-549), Institute of Neurosciences, University of Granada, Granada, Spain; Biomedical Research Centre in Mental Health Net (CIBERSAM), Santiago Apóstol Hospital, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria, Spain. Electronic address: jdeleon@uky.edu.
² New York University School of Medicine, Bellevue Hospital, New York, NY.

PMID: 31611046
DOI: 10.1016/j.psym.2019.08.008

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Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Antipsychotic Agents*
Clozapine*
Hospitals
Humans
Myocarditis*
New York

Substances

Antipsychotic Agents
Clozapine