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Ziprasidone
Aka: Ziprasidone, Geodon
- Indications
- Schizophrenia (including acute episodic agitation)
- Mania
- Bipolar Disorder
- Tourette's Syndrome (not FDA approved)
- Class
- Atypical Antipsychotic (Second Generation agent)
- Advantages
- Minimal weight gain than with other atypical Antipsychotics
- Lower risk of diabetes than with other atypical Antipsychotics
- Drug Interactions
- Increase Antipsychotic levels (toxicity risk): Monitor for toxicity
- Clarithromycin
- Erythromycin
- Grapefruit juice
- Fluconazole
- Itraconazole
- Ketoconazole
- Decrease Antipsychotic levels (lower efficacy)
- Carbamazepine
- Phenytoin
- Monitoring
- See Antipsychotics