General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 29, Issue 3 , Pages 278-279, May 2007

Cocaine use as a risk factor for ziprasidone-induced acute dystonia

Department of Behavioral Medicine, Herrick Medical Center, MI 49286, USA

Received 8 December 2006; accepted 29 January 2007.

Abstract 

Cocaine use is an under-recognized risk factor of antipsychotic-induced acute dystonia. A case of a patient with psychotic illness and concurrent cocaine use developing acute dystonia with ziprasidone is described.

Keywords: Antipsychotics, Dystonia, Cocaine

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PII: S0163-8343(07)00016-3

doi:10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2007.01.015

General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 29, Issue 3 , Pages 278-279, May 2007

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