Biomedical subjects

Gábor Gaszner

Publications and source records attributed to Gábor Gaszner.

4 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed2005

[Pharmacovigilance as new direction of research].

Pharmacovigilance: permanent collection and assessment of the safety data of the drug, in the interest of precise knowledge of the safety profile of the pharmacon; permanent collection of unexpected adverse drug reactions, effects on special patient populations, drug interactions, adverse drug reactions of long-term treatment, adverse drug reactions of long latency. Our study was performed under the tutelage of the Drug Safety Programme in Psychiatry (AMSP), 2004. We review the side effects occuring in the different organ systems; side effects during the use of antidepressive and antipsychotic therapy. We review how the danger of polypharmacy can be avoided by reducing the dose of the current drug; by using therapeutic drug; or just by monitoring therapeutic and adverse effects.

Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Systems↗

PubMed2004

[Paralytic ileus during haloperidol therapy].

In the case of elderly patients, the serious side effects of haloperidol should be taken into account. The 83-year-old schizophrenic patient had had successful haloperidol treatment, but developed a sudden paralytic ileus. The unique side effect of haloperidol calls attention to the danger of neuroleptic treatment of elderly patients. The good solution is to change over from haloperidol to a second-generation antipsychotic agent.

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PubMed2004

[Schizoid psychosis during cannabis intake (case report)].

UNLABELLED: Three young people developed psychosis during/ after cannabis intake. The 17-year-old male after only a few marihuana cigarettes, the 22-year-old patient after two years of addiction developed schizoid psychosis; the 20-year-old patient after six years of cannabis addiction had schizoaffective psychosis. The first two patients become symptom-free on the antipsychotics and during the drug-free period. The third patient, who had cannabis during the psychotic symptoms, still has the schizoid psychosis. CONCLUSIONS: The connection between cannabis and psychosis is clear in our three patients. Marihuana is working on the dopamine system and may cause schizoid psychosis, sometimes permanent psychosis. Cannabis, this light drug might not be a "safe" agent.

Adult↗

PubMed2004

[Misdiagnosed PTSD and zeldox pharmacotherapy in case of a political prisoner].

Treatment of survivors of political terror is an emerging and difficult field. Reports on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in political prisoners within the former Eastern Block countries is low and mostly restricted to German sources. During the totalitarian period administrative and clinical decisions often had to take into account political realities not found in other treatment environments. That practice might have lead to biased professional training, lack of experience extending into the post-communist era and leading to current underpresentation of PTSD. The authors present a case report of a Hungarian political prisoner with long history of PTSD who had a "carry over" diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia even 15 years after the collapse of the communist regime. After decades of continuous administration of antipsychotic and antidepressive medications, either alone or in combination, Zeldox monotherapy has proven to be the most effective treatment for this patient.

Antipsychotic Agents↗