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CASE REPORT article

Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Perinatal Psychiatry
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1452980
This article is part of the Research Topic Women with Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Understanding & Personalizing Needs View all 3 articles

Cariprazine and Clozapine Combination for the Treatment of Psychosis in a Young, Female Patient with Schizophrenia: A Case Report

Provisionally accepted
Anzejs Dmuhovskis Anzejs Dmuhovskis 1,2Māris Taube Māris Taube 1,3*
  • 1 Riga Stradiņš University, Riga, Latvia
  • 2 Department of Residency, Riga, Latvia
  • 3 Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Riga, Latvia

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    The task of a psychiatrist is to select the most appropriate medication or combination of drugs to treat the symptoms of schizophrenia while minimizing the risk of side effects and ensuring the patient achieves the highest level of functioning possible. This is a challenging task as the action of each drug or group of drugs is different. The efficacy of cariprazine, which affects D3 receptors as a D3/D2 receptor partial agonist, has been extensively studied and is one of the first medication choices by practicing psychiatrists when treating patients with negative symptomatology. In this clinical case, we demonstrate the effective and safe treatment of a patient’s positive and affective symptoms using a combination of cariprazine, clozapine, and venlafaxine

    Keywords: Cariprazine, Clozapine, psychosis, Polypharmacy, Treatment, Young female

    Received: 21 Jun 2024; Accepted: 30 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Dmuhovskis and Taube. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Māris Taube, Riga Stradiņš University, Riga, Latvia

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