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Gangaparameswari Soundarrajan1, Bharti Chogtu1, Vybhava Krishna1
1Soundarrajan, MBBS post graduate student, department of pharmacology, Kasturba medical college, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Karnataka, India. Chogtu, MD (pharmacology) Associate professor, department of pharmacology, Kasturba medical college, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Karnataka, India. Krishna, MBBS post graduate student, department of pharmacology, Kasturba medical college, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Karnataka, India. Kamanth, MD (psychiatry) Senior resident, department of pharmacology, Kasturba medical college, Manipal Academic of Higher Education, Karnataka, India. Murugesan, MBBS post graduate student, department of pharmacology, Kasturba medical college, Manipal Academic of Higher Education, Karnataka, India.
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Akathisia is a common movement disorder that occurs as a consequence of antipsychotic therapy. However, its occurrence secondary to risperidone withdrawal has been reported rarely. Reporting of such rare adverse event gains profound importance because changing the antipsychotics is very common in long term management of affective disorders. Here, we report a 17-year-old female who on withdrawal of risperidone developed akathisia. Further, we also discuss already reported cases in literature in relation to the current case.
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