Switching to quetiapine for risperidone-induced amenorrhea: Report of two cases

Almost all the antipsychotics can cause hyperprolactinemia-related side-effects like amenorrhea. Quetiapine has been reported to have minimal propensity to cause hyperprolactinemia. We report here two cases of risperidone-induced amenorrhea, who resumed their normal cycle on switching over the medic...

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Main Authors: Pardal, P. K., Konwar, Raaj, Prakash, Jyoti
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2010
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3237133/
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spelling pubmed-32371332011-12-15 Switching to quetiapine for risperidone-induced amenorrhea: Report of two cases Pardal, P. K. Konwar, Raaj Prakash, Jyoti Case Report Almost all the antipsychotics can cause hyperprolactinemia-related side-effects like amenorrhea. Quetiapine has been reported to have minimal propensity to cause hyperprolactinemia. We report here two cases of risperidone-induced amenorrhea, who resumed their normal cycle on switching over the medication to quetiapine. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC3237133/ /pubmed/22174540 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-6748.90348 Text en Copyright: © Industrial Psychiatry Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author Pardal, P. K.
Konwar, Raaj
Prakash, Jyoti
spellingShingle Pardal, P. K.
Konwar, Raaj
Prakash, Jyoti
Switching to quetiapine for risperidone-induced amenorrhea: Report of two cases
author_facet Pardal, P. K.
Konwar, Raaj
Prakash, Jyoti
author_sort Pardal, P. K.
title Switching to quetiapine for risperidone-induced amenorrhea: Report of two cases
title_short Switching to quetiapine for risperidone-induced amenorrhea: Report of two cases
title_full Switching to quetiapine for risperidone-induced amenorrhea: Report of two cases
title_fullStr Switching to quetiapine for risperidone-induced amenorrhea: Report of two cases
title_full_unstemmed Switching to quetiapine for risperidone-induced amenorrhea: Report of two cases
title_sort switching to quetiapine for risperidone-induced amenorrhea: report of two cases
description Almost all the antipsychotics can cause hyperprolactinemia-related side-effects like amenorrhea. Quetiapine has been reported to have minimal propensity to cause hyperprolactinemia. We report here two cases of risperidone-induced amenorrhea, who resumed their normal cycle on switching over the medication to quetiapine.
publisher Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd
publishDate 2010
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3237133/
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