The effects of neuroleptic drugs on 5‐hydroxytryptamine induced platelet aggregation in schizophrenic patients.
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- 1 March 1981
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
- Vol. 11 (3), 255-259
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2125.1981.tb00530.x
Abstract
1 The effects of treatment with a range of neuroleptic drugs on 5‐ hydroxytryptamine (5‐HT) induced platelet aggregation in vivo were examined in a group of recently admitted psychiatric patients and in a larger group of chronic schizophrenic patients. 2 Five of seven recently admitted patients treated with chlorpromazine showed enhanced aggregation. Four of seven patients treated with fluphenazine, flupenthixol, trifluoperazine and haloperidol showed enhancement. 3 Enhanced aggregation responses were observed in only 20% of chronic schizophrenic patients being treated with a neuroleptic drug. 4 The relationship between changes in platelet aggregation and clinical changes in recently admitted patients was variable and platelet aggregation responses were not predictive of response to treatment. 5 Chronic schizophrenic patients with enhanced aggregation showed significant week to week variation in platelet aggregation response. Variability of responses was not related to the drug used or to the dose administered. There was some evidence that higher plasma concentrations of neuroleptic drugs were associated with enhanced platelet aggregation responses. 6 Treatment with neuroleptic drugs leads to enhancement of platelet aggregation responses induced by 5‐HT. The frequency and reliability with which such responses can be elicited is unpredictable and the value of platelet aggregation responses as an empirical guide to treatment with neuroleptic drugs is therefore open to question.Keywords
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