TY - JOUR T1 - Pericardial effusion in patients with schizophrenia: are they on clozapine? JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 383 LP - 384 DO - 10.1136/emj.2007.056879 VL - 25 IS - 6 AU - P Raju AU - G K Rao AU - G Davis Y1 - 2008/06/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/25/6/383.abstract N2 - Clozapine is used in the treatment of resistant schizophrenia. It is used as a reserve drug mainly because of its adverse effect profile affecting gastrointestinal, haematological and cardiorespiratory systems. Cardiac side effects are uncommon but could be potentially life threatening, hence early recognition and active monitoring are essential to prevent serious cardiac side effects. A case of pericarditis with pericardial effusion is described in a patient who was recently started on clozapine which disappeared within 1 week after discontinuation of clozapine. ER -