Monitoring of adverse events in long-term treatment with antipsychotics

Abstract

Psychiatrists shoul provide regular physical health monitoring their patients. There is a clinical need to monitor antipsychotic-treated patients for metabolic, cardiovascular, neurological and endocrine disturbance.

Keywords

• schizophrenia
• antipsychotics
• cardiovascular diseases
• torsades de pointes
• myocarditis
• cardiomyopathy