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ArticleCase reports in psychiatry2017

Treatment of Hypochondriasis in Two Schizophrenia Patients Using Clozapine.

Antonio Tundo, Luca Proietti, Rocco de Filippis

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Article in Case reports in psychiatry, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Antonio TundoIstituto di Psicopatologia, Via Girolamo da Carpi 1, 00196 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0612-734X
Luca ProiettiIstituto di Psicopatologia, Via Girolamo da Carpi 1, 00196 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4270-3145
Rocco de FilippisIstituto di Psicopatologia, Via Girolamo da Carpi 1, 00196 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9101-072X
Istituto Psicoanalitico per le Ricerche Sociali · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hypochondriasis (HYPO), an obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorder, is frequent in patients with schizophrenia (SCH) (20%), especially among those treated with clozapine (36.7%). Treatment options for OCS/OCD in patients under clozapine (CLZ) include combining clozapine with amisulpride/aripiprazole or a mood stabilizer, augmenting clozapine with a serotoninergic reuptake inhibitor, adding cognitive behavioural therapy, and gradually reducing dosage. No treatments have been proposed for HYPO in patients using clozapine so we examine these options in 2 cases and report the results. Among treatments delivered, only dosage reduction adequately worked. We recommend caution when thinking about escalating treatment and suggest trying it only when alternative interventions were not successful and weighing risk and benefits of this therapeutic strategy. Further research is needed to confirm the hypothesis that CLZ treatment induces hypochondriac symptoms, to investigate the prevalence of the phenomenon, and, mostly, to identify possible treatment strategies.

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