Case report : Treatment-resistant schizophrenia with auto-aggressive compulsive behavior—Successful management with cariprazine
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2023-06-29
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The present case report describes a patient with treatment-resistant schizophrenia and auto-aggressive compulsive behavior who was effectively treated with a third-generation antipsychotic medication, cariprazine. The diagnosis was made 12 years ago, and the patient has been hospitalized 14 times and undergone various antipsychotic treatments. Despite receiving both inpatient and outpatient care, the patient's response to treatment has been only partial, and he has been classified as a treatment-resistant case. Therefore, the patient was switched to cariprazine, which led to significant improvements in both positive and negative symptoms, as well as the complete reduction of auto-aggressive compulsive behavior. These improvements contributed to the patient's overall social functioning and the achievement of remission, while also avoiding polypharmacy and eliminating the metabolic side effects associated with previous treatments.
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Funding Information: Gedeon Richter covered the article submission fee. The funder was not involved in the study design, collection, analysis, interpretation of data, the writing of this article, or the decision to submit it for publication. Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2023 Renemane and Rancans.
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treatment-resistant schizophren, cariprazi, aggressive compulsive behavior, treatment of schizophren, antipsychoti, 3.2 Clinical medicine, 1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database
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Renemane, L & Rancāns, E 2023, 'Case report : Treatment-resistant schizophrenia with auto-aggressive compulsive behavior—Successful management with cariprazine', Frontiers in Psychiatry, vol. 14, 1209077. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1209077