Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology
Case Report

A catatonic schizophrenia case treated effectively with aripiprazole

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Namık Kemal University, Medical Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, Tekirdağ - Turkey

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Akdeniz University, Medical Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, Antalya - Turkey

Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology 2013; 23: 257-260
DOI: 10.5455/bcp.20130127022449
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The catatonic schizophrenia is an uncommon sub-type of schizophrenia, which demonstrates clinical signs such as catalepsy or stupor, posturing of voluntary movements, excessive negativism, mutism, mannerism, stereotypical movements such as echolalia and echopraxia. Atypical antipsychotics, benzodiazepines, ECT, and NMDA antagonists are reported to be effective in treatment of catatonic schizophrenia; however knowledge about the effective treatment of catatonic schizophrenia is still limited. In the present article, we have reported the case of a patient diagnosed with catatonic schizophrenia who was treated effectively with aripiprazole in a short period of time.


Katatonik şizofreni tanılı bir olgunun aripipirazol ile etkin tedavisi

Katatonik şizofreni şizofreninin sık rastlanılmayan bir alt tipi olup; katalepsi veya stupor, istemli hareketlerde postür alma, aşırı negativizim, mutizm, manyerizm, ekolali ve ekopraksi gibi sterotipik hareketler şeklinde klinik belirtiler gösterir. Atipik antipsikotikler, benzodiazepinler, EKT ve NMDA antagonistlerinin katatonik şizofreninin tedavisinde etkili olduğu bildirilse de, halen katatonik şizofreninin etkin tedavisi hakkındaki bilgiler yetersizdir. Bu yazıda, kısa bir sürede aripipirazol ile etkin şekilde tedavi edilen katatonik şizofreni tanılı bir olgu sunulmuştur

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