Constrictive Pericarditis Associated with Atypical Antipsychotics

We report the successful surgical intervention in a case of constrictive pericarditis after long-term use of atypical antipsychotics. Pericarditis developed in our patient with a longstanding history of schizophrenia treated with atypical antipsychotics. Pericardiectomy was undertaken, and the patie...

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Main Authors:	Chen, Kuan-chin Jean, Goela, Aashish, Teefy, Patrick, Guo, L. Ray
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4008517/

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spelling	pubmed-40085172014-05-13 Constrictive Pericarditis Associated with Atypical Antipsychotics Chen, Kuan-chin Jean Goela, Aashish Teefy, Patrick Guo, L. Ray Case Report We report the successful surgical intervention in a case of constrictive pericarditis after long-term use of atypical antipsychotics. Pericarditis developed in our patient with a longstanding history of schizophrenia treated with atypical antipsychotics. Pericardiectomy was undertaken, and the patient's presenting symptom of shortness of breath resolved subsequently with an uneventful postoperative course. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-07-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4008517/ /pubmed/24826274 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/805939 Text en Copyright © 2012 Kuan-chin Jean Chen et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author	Chen, Kuan-chin Jean Goela, Aashish Teefy, Patrick Guo, L. Ray
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author_facet	Chen, Kuan-chin Jean Goela, Aashish Teefy, Patrick Guo, L. Ray
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title	Constrictive Pericarditis Associated with Atypical Antipsychotics
title_short	Constrictive Pericarditis Associated with Atypical Antipsychotics
title_full	Constrictive Pericarditis Associated with Atypical Antipsychotics
title_fullStr	Constrictive Pericarditis Associated with Atypical Antipsychotics
title_full_unstemmed	Constrictive Pericarditis Associated with Atypical Antipsychotics
title_sort	constrictive pericarditis associated with atypical antipsychotics
description	We report the successful surgical intervention in a case of constrictive pericarditis after long-term use of atypical antipsychotics. Pericarditis developed in our patient with a longstanding history of schizophrenia treated with atypical antipsychotics. Pericardiectomy was undertaken, and the patient's presenting symptom of shortness of breath resolved subsequently with an uneventful postoperative course.
publisher	Hindawi Publishing Corporation
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url	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4008517/
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Constrictive Pericarditis Associated with Atypical Antipsychotics

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