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The Hla System and the Clinical Response to Treatment with Chlorpromazine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

E. Smeraldi ,
L. Bellodi ,
E. Sacchetti  and
C. L. Cazzullo
E. Smeraldi
Affiliation:
Biological Psychiatry Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Milan Medical School, Via F. Sforza, 35-20122 Milano, Italy
L. Bellodi
Affiliation:
Biological Psychiatry Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Milan Medical School, Via F. Sforza, 35-20122 Milano, Italy
E. Sacchetti
Affiliation:
Biological Psychiatry Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Milan Medical School, Via F. Sforza, 35-20122 Milano, Italy
C. L. Cazzullo
Affiliation:
Biological Psychiatry Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Milan Medical School, Via F. Sforza, 35-20122 Milano, Italy
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Summary

A group of 33 schizophrenic patients were typed for HLA-SD antigens and their qualitative clinical responses to chlorpromazine therapy determined. A highly significant positive correlation was found between response to chlorpromazine and HLA-A1 positive, while HLA-A2 positive subjects showed a significant negative correlation to chlorpromazine treatment.

In a second group of 17 patients the clinical responses to chlorpromazine were evaluated quantitatively, by WPRS, in HLA-A1 positive and HLA-A1 negative patients. There were no pre-treatment differences in the scores. After treatment the scores of positive patients were significantly lower, indicating that they responded to a greater degree.

Since the frequency of HLA-A1 in hebephrenic patients is higher than that in other schizophrenics this may explain our earlier finding that hebephrenics, as a group, respond better to chlorpromazine than do other schizophrenics.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 129 , Issue 5 , November 1976 , pp. 486 - 489
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1976 

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