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Successful Use of Tetrabenazine in a Patient with Intractable Hiccups After Stroke
We describe the case of a 60‐year‐old man with a recent diagnosis of right insular ischemic stroke who presented with frequent, intense, and disabling hiccups for more than 1 month. As diagnosis of poststroke hiccups was assumed, the patient was treated over the next 6 months with adequate doses of various antipsychotic drugs commonly used for the treatment of hiccups; however, all were discontinued because of adverse effects. Indeed, dyskinesia after chlorpromazine (up to 75 mg/day for 4 wks), as well as somnolence and dyskinesia after haloperidol (up to 6 mg/day for 6 wks), somnolence after gabapentin (up to 18...
Source: Pharmacotherapy: The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug Therapy - December 4, 2014 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Antonino Naro, Placido Bramanti, Rocco Salvatore Calabrò Tags: Case Report Source Type: research