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Priapism and Psychotropic Medication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

John Kogeorgos  and
Chandu de Alwis
John Kogeorgos*
Affiliation:
Horton Hospital, Long Grove Road, Epsom, Surrey KT19 8PZ and Honorary Consultant, St Mary's Hospital, London
Chandu de Alwis
Affiliation:
Horton Hospital, Epsom
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

Priapism is a rare but serious adverse effect of psychotropic drugs resulting from their peripheral alpha-adrenoreceptor blocking action. Two patients developed this during treatment with oral phenothiazines: one was treated surgically with a venous shunt, and the second case resolved after intracavernosal injection of an alpha-adrenoreceptor stimulating drug.

Type
Brief Reports
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 149 , Issue 2 , August 1986 , pp. 241 - 243
Copyright
Copyright © 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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