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Ionized calcium and neuroleptic-induced extrapyramidal symptoms
1Research Department, Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland.
Pharmacopsychiatry
|November 1, 1988
Abstract:
In a prospective study, the association between neuroleptic-induced extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS) and serum calcium levels with special regard to ionized calcium was investigated. The sample included 24 newly admitted psychcotic patients who received neuroleptic treatment. The 11 patients in whom EPS developed had significant, lower ionized calcium levels in the drug-free period than the 13 patients without EPS.