15Oct 2019

A REVIEW OF HALOPERIDOL INDUCED NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS

  • Doctor of Pharmacy, Chaitanya College of Pharmacy Education and Research, Department Of Pharmacy Practice, Affiliated To Kakatiya University, Warangal, Telangana, India
  • Amrutha Childrens Hospital, Warangal, Telangana, India
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Haloperidol is a known antipsychotic that is administered in the treatment of neurological conditions such as hallucinations, mild to severe psychosis, agitated schizophrenia and other conditions related to mental impairment. As with most drugs, it possesses adverse effects seen in the use of most antipsychotics such as extrapyramidal symptoms or accidental haloperidol symptoms (some of which include tremors, dystonia, and myoclonus disorders), and other neurological complications such as seizures, parkinson?s disease, obsessive compulsive symptoms (OCS) and neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS). This review consists of a base study of a seizure case (which occurred as a result of accidental haloperidol poisoning), and a compilation of examined cases which detail the neurological complications associated with the use of haloperidol and antipsychotics in general, such as laryngeal dystonia, rhabdomyolysis associated seizures, etc


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[Yata vijaya and Okeke chukwugoziem bright (2019); A REVIEW OF HALOPERIDOL INDUCED NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS Int. J. of Adv. Res. 7 (Oct). 1359-1364] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/9965      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/9965