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DUSUNEN ADAM-JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 28, Issue 4, Pages 369-373Publisher
YERKURE TANITIM & YAYINCILIK HIZMETLERI A S
DOI: 10.5350/DAJPN2015280409
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Hydroxychloroquine; psychosis; side-effect
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Chloroquine and its derivative hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) have been used for acute and prophilactic treatment of malaria for most of the last century. HCQ has anti-inflammatory, antilipidemic and antithrombotic effects and in recent years has become an important drug for treating rheumatoid arthritis ( RA). In the literature, antimalarial-induced psychosis has been reported in a small number of cases; however, we did not find any case related with HCQ-induced psychosis in rheumatoid arthritis. We want to report a 73-year-old female RA patient without a previous history of psychosis who developed psychosis after use of HCQ. HCQ is being increasingly prescribed in autoimmune diseases. Clinicians need to be aware of psychosis as a rare but debilitating side effect.
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