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Clozapine-induced acute gastrointestinal necrosis: a case report

BACKGROUND: Clozapine is known to cause fecal impaction and ileus with resultant colonic necrosis due to compression of colonic mucosa. There are rare reports of clozapine causing necrosis of other portions of the gastrointestinal tract unrelated to constipation. We describe a case of acute necrosis...

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Published in:J Med Case Rep
Main Authors: Osterman, Mark T., Foley, Caitlin, Matthias, Isaac
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5610409/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28938913
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-017-1447-4
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