Paliperidone in the Therapy of Schizoaffective Psychosis in Adolescents (Clinical Case)

Abstract

The publication describes a patient in adolescents with a firstNonset psychosis withaan асute onset in the form of a manic affect with irritability, delirium of other parents, depersonalization,
and with delusions of persecution, expansive paraphrenia and catatonic inclusions. Treatment with paliperidone showed the possibility of a drug with a relatively rapid relief of acute psychosis.
A laboratory monitoring of the prolactin level in the blood was conducted, which showed a slight increase in the average dosage of the drug, but without significant clinical manifestations of
hyperprolactinaemia. There was a good tolerance of paliperidone and its high effectiveness in stopping an acute attack of psychosis in adolescence.