Pneumonia risk: approximately one-third is due to clozapine and two-thirds is due to treatment-resistant schizophrenia

Acta Psychiatr Scand. 2020 Jul;142(1):66-67. doi: 10.1111/acps.13184.

Authors

A G Villasante-Tezanos¹, C Rohde^{2

3

4}, J Nielsen⁴, J de Leon⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA.
² Department of Affective Disorders, Aarhus University Hospital - Psychiatry, Aarhus, Denmark.
³ Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
⁴ Mental Health Centre Glostrup, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁵ Mental Health Research Center at Eastern State Hospital, Lexington, KY, USA.

PMID: 32415875
DOI: 10.1111/acps.13184

No abstract available

Keywords: clozapine/adverse effects; clozapine/toxicity; infection; pneumonia; respiratory aspiration.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Antipsychotic Agents*
Clozapine*
Humans
Pneumonia*
Schizophrenia*

Substances

Antipsychotic Agents
Clozapine