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Current Drug Safety

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ISSN (Print): 1574-8863
ISSN (Online): 2212-3911

Case Report

A Case of Quinacrine-induced Psychosis: Case Report

Author(s): Anangamanjari Pedapudi*, Jonathan Stewart and Ankita Patel

Volume 16, Issue 3, 2021

Published on: 04 October, 2020

Page: [290 - 292] Pages: 3

DOI: 10.2174/1574886315666201005103142

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Abstract

Background: Quinacrine is an older antimalarial drug that remains in use for a variety of illnesses including treatment-resistant giardiasis.

Case Presentation: We report a patient with no prior psychiatric history who developed mild, prodromal psychiatric symptoms when treated with quinacrine for treatment-resistant giardiasis. Symptoms resolved when the drug was stopped, recurred with greater severity (requiring involuntary psychiatric hospitalization) when restarted and promptly resolved again when the drug was finally stopped.

Conclusion: Although quinacrine remains in use today, providers may be unaware of its potential for serious neuropsychiatric toxicity.

Keywords: Quinacrine, quinolines, psychosis, adverse drug reaction, case report, giardiasis.


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