Key result
Onset and termination of amiodarone therapy precipitated psychosis and depression in a 75-year-old male patient.
Why the study?
Does amiodarone therapy cause psychosis and depression?
Case Report (n=1)
Does amiodarone therapy cause psychosis and depression?
Amiodarone therapy may be associated with the emergence of psychosis and depression, highlighting the need for careful psychiatric assessment.
May warrant psychiatric monitoring with amiodarone; case report leaves open causality and generalizability.
Presented is a case study of a seventy five year old man who experienced psychosis and depression related to the onset and termination of amiodarone therapy. The study looks at the pharmacology of amiodarone and the mechanisms that may have led to the emergence of these symptoms. It also raises the issue of making a careful assessment of a patient's life event history in that life events that may not be classically regarded as significant life events may be important in the precipitation of mental illness.
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Cheesman et al. (2008) conducted a case report in Psychosis and depression (n=1). Amiodarone was evaluated on Emergence of psychosis and depression. Onset and termination of amiodarone therapy precipitated psychosis and depression in a 75-year-old male patient.
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