Pulmonary Thromboembolism Associated with Olanzapine Treatment

To the Editor： A 55-year-old female was admitted to the emergency department of our hospital complaining of dyspnea alter catching a bus for about 5 m during last day. She had a past history of suffering from depression mood disorder recently and could not sleep well at night tbr which she was start...

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Published in:Chinese medical journal 2015-02, Vol.128 (3), p.419-420
Main Authors: Wang, Qian, Guan, Lan, Li, Rui-Ming, Zhao, Bin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antidepressants
Antipsychotics
Benzodiazepines - therapeutic use
Blood
Case studies
Causes of
Complications and side effects
Correspondence
Diagnosis
Drugs
Emergency medical care
Health risk assessment
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Medicine
Middle Aged
Olanzapine
Psychotropic drugs
Pulmonary embolism
Pulmonary Embolism - drug therapy
Thromboembolism
呼吸困难
心血管疾病
栓塞
氮
治疗
盐酸舍曲林
肺
血栓
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Summary:To the Editor： A 55-year-old female was admitted to the emergency department of our hospital complaining of dyspnea alter catching a bus for about 5 m during last day. She had a past history of suffering from depression mood disorder recently and could not sleep well at night tbr which she was started on olanzapine tablets 10 rag/d, sertraline hydrochloride tablets 50 mg/d and oxazepam tablets 15 mg/d tbr 28 days by a physician of psychiatric hospital. She was otherwise without receiving any other medicine, including oral contraceptive, illicit drugs or alcohol and had no history of smoking, recent surgery, trauma, peripheral vascular disease, cancer or cardiovascular disease. What＇s more, she did not have a demonstrable lowered activity level or weight change recently.
ISSN:0366-6999
2542-5641
DOI:10.4103/0366-6999.150124