An Adolescent Case That Has Benefited From Use of Quetiapine For Tardive Dyskinesia

2016-08-15T15-01-43Z
Source: Çocuk ve Gençlik Ruh Sağlığı Dergisi / Turkish Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Akça ÖF, Yılmaz S..
Tardive dyskinesia (TD) is an extrapyramidal hyperkinetic movement disorder characterized by involuntary choreoathetoid movements due to use of long-term antipsychotic medication. It is well known that clozapine has therapeutic effect on TD. However, reports indicating the effectiveness of other atypical antipsychotics are limited. There are few reports of substantial and rapid improvement in TD symptoms in adult patients with quetiapine in the literature, though no information on this matter had been yet published in children and adolescents up to this date. In this paper, we report an adolescent patient who developed TD during risperidone treatment, and gradual improvement of symptoms achieved within short term such as five weeks after quetiapine administration.


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