Overdoses with Aripiprazole: Signs, Symptoms and Outcome in 239 Exposures Reported to the Danish Poison Information Centre
| Autor: | Mikkel B. Christensen, Amalie Christensen, Kim Dalhoff, Tonny Studsgaard Petersen, Soeren Boegevig, Kasper Meidahl Petersen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Time Factors Denmark Aripiprazole Suicide Attempted Toxicology 0302 clinical medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Child education.field_of_study Mortality rate General Medicine Middle Aged Treatment Outcome Anesthesia Child Preschool Female medicine.symptom medicine.drug Antipsychotic Agents Adult medicine.medical_specialty Poison Control Centers Adolescent Consciousness medicine.drug_class Sedation Population Drug overdose Risk Assessment 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult Internal medicine medicine Humans Sign/symptom education Aged Retrospective Studies Pharmacology business.industry Infant Newborn Infant Retrospective cohort study medicine.disease 030227 psychiatry Accidents Home Sedative Drug Overdose business |
| Zdroj: | Basicclinical pharmacologytoxicology. 122(2) |
| ISSN: | 1742-7843 |
| Popis: | The aim of this study was to characterize the clinical signs and symptoms of exposures to aripiprazole overdoses. We retrospectively identified all aripiprazole exposures reported to the Danish Poison Information Centre (DPIC) from June 2007 to May 2015. Information concerning demographics, ingested dose and symptoms was extracted from the DPIC database and medical records. Information on death and admission to hospital was obtained from Danish national registers. We analysed 239 cases, 86 concerning single-drug exposures to aripiprazole, and 153 cases where aripiprazole had been taken with at least one other substance (mixed-drug). The median ingested aripiprazole dose was 105 mg (IQR: 50-1680 mg) in the single-drug exposure group and 120 mg (IQR: 60-225 mg) in the mixed-drug exposure group. The most commonly reported symptom was light sedation, reported in 63% of the single-drug group and 50% of the mixed-drug exposure group. There were no malignant arrhythmias or ECG abnormalities after single-drug exposures. No deaths were recorded in relation to the intake. We found a long-term mortality rate of 13 deaths per 1000 person-years (95% CI: 7; 23 per 1000 person-years), which is significantly higher than in an age- and gender-matched background population. In conclusion, we found that aripiprazole overdoses had few and mild symptoms predominantly related to the sedative properties. We detected a benign cardiovascular safety profile and no new safety concerns. Our findings may support an increased threshold of 300 mg for hospital admission after a single-drug exposure with aripiprazole and symptoms not worse than light sedation. |
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