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| Year : 2011 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 133-134 |
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Tardive Meige's syndrome associated with olanzapine
Ashish Aggarwal1, Manish Jain2, Ashish Khandelwal3, RC Jiloha3
1 Department of Psychiatry, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla, India
2 Dr RML Hospital, New Delhi, India
3 GB Pant Hospital, New Delhi, India
Correspondence Address:
Ashish Aggarwal
Department of Psychiatry, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla - 171 001
India
DOI: 10.4103/0972-2327.82808 PMID: 21808480
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Meige's syndrome is characterized by blepharospasm and oromandibular dystonia. It has been reported as a complication of typical antipsychotics. To the best of our knowledge, case of olanzapine-induced tardive Meige's syndrome has not been reported in the literature. We we are reporting report a case of Meige's syndrome developing after long term therapy with olanzapine. |
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