Clozapine treatment of psychosis in patients with tardive dystonia: Report of three cases

摘要: Among the tardive dyskinesia syndromes, dystonia can be most difficult to treat. It may severe point of being disabling, yet patients require antipsychotic medications for an even more disabling psychosis. Clozapine, atypical neuroleptic drug that lacks extrapyramidal effects, choice such patients. This report describes three with significant dystonia, previously disabled by their psychoses, who have been successfully managed clozapine plus other agents > 3 years.