Death due to intestinal obstruction in a patient treated with clozapine
A 53 year old female diagnosed with long term resistant schizophrenia, ischaemic heart disease and hypertension was treated with 700 mg/day of clozapine.Five months after commencing treatment, she complained of acute onset colicky abdominal pain and nausea with constipation of one days duration.Suspecting intestinal obstruction, she was referred fr