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Effectiveness of Switching to Aripiprazole Monotherapy for Chronic Schizophrenia with High Dose Antipsychotics Masanori HONMA 1 , Hideaki KATOU 1 1Suda Hospital, Takayama, Japan Keyword: Aripiprazole , Effectiveness , Chronic schizophrenia , Treatment-resistant schizophrenia , Dopamine supersensitivity psychosis pp.857-867
Published Date 2015/10/15
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1405205008
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 Aripiprazole (APZ) is a non-sedative atypical antipsychotic agent with a few side effects and acts as a dopamine D2 partial agonist. There have been no reports of switching to APZ monotherapy for chronic schizophrenia. In this report, we examined 13 cases of patients with chronic schizophreni a (mean age 50.9±13.5 years old;5 men, 8 women), who were treated with a high dose (equivalent of over 1,000mg dose of chlorpromazine) of antipsychotic drugs, which was switched to APZ. The results indicated that 9 of the 13 cases (69%) made a successful switch to APZ monotherapy after 1 year, while three needed the previous antipsychotics, and one had to stop APZ monotherapy due to continuous worsening of positive symptoms. In all the 13 cases, the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) indicated mild change from 48.3±12.4 to 44.2±14.0 (mean±SD). In the 12 continuing cases (92.3%), 7 cases showed mild improvement of the Clinical Global Impression of Severity (CGI-S), but 5 cases showed no change. The mean dosage of antipsychotics decreased from 1,399.2±243.8 (mg/day) to 700.0±240.3 (mg/day) of chlorpromazine equivalents in the 12 cases. Furthermore, decrease in body weight, decrease in serum total cholesterol, improvement of hyperprolactinemia, and menstrual disorder were observed. We could resolve the transient disease progression and mild adverse events (extrapyramidal symptom, insomnia) by using sodium valproate, lorazepam, sleep inducing drugs, and by dose regulation of main agent. Although contrivance and enough time of switching are needed, this report suggests that switching to APZ has useful advantages in chronic schizophrenia. We considered the relationship between APZ, treatment-resistant schizophrenia, and dopamine supersensitivity psychosis in discussion.


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