Citation

Açikel C, Ebrinç S, Ergün, Celikoz B. Gazi Med. J. 2003; 14(2): 85-88.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, Gazi Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi)

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Abstract

This is a presentation of a 38-year-old male patient who had a low-velocity gunshot wound because of a suicide attempt. The suicide attempt occurred after two months of antidepressive drug therapy for a Major Depressive Disorder episode that emerged during alpha-interferon therapy because of his chronic myeloid leukemia illness. A comminuted mandibular body fracture was reconstructed by iliac bone graft. Antipsychotic and anxiolytic drug therapies were added, and the dose of the antidepressant drug was increased after the suicide attempt. Symptoms deceased after this medical treatment protocol. Our colleagues should be aware of the possible psychiatric side effects of interferon and the consider psychiatric and medical management of such patients, as well as reconstruction.

Language: en

Keywords

Interferon; Psychiatric Side Effects