Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology
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Clin Psychopharmacol Neurosci · Nov 2016
Case ReportsSerotonin Syndrome after Clomipramine Overdose in a Child.
Serotonin syndrome (SS) is a potentially life-threatening condition associated with increased serotonergic activity in central nervous system and may occur during the use of serotonergic drugs. Although increasing frequency of serotonergic drug use in children, pediatricians, emergency medicine and pediatric intensive care specialists have not enough knowledge and experience about SS that is a potentially life-threatening condition. ⋯ The patient diagnosed as SS by clinical history, physical and laboratory findings. In this paper, we will discuss SS occurred in a 12-year-old girl after concurrent clomipramine and risperidone use.