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CASE REPORT
Retrograde ejaculation associated with quetiapine and treatment with low-dose imipramine
  1. Matthew Roughley1 and
  2. Marc Lyall2
  1. 1 City and Hackney Centre for Mental Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
  2. 2 John Howard Centre, East London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Matthew Roughley, mattjroughley{at}gmail.com

Abstract

Sexual side-effects are common among those using antipsychotic medication and may result in poor compliance and reduced quality of life. Retrograde ejaculation (RE) has been described occurring with a number of antipsychotic medications (thioridazine, risperidone, iloperidone and clozapine) but there are no guidelines regarding management of antipsychotic-associated RE. Imipramine has been suggested as a treatment for antipsychotic-associated RE in one small study of patients prescribed thioridazine and a case series of patients prescribed iloperidone. Quetiapine is a commonly used antipsychotic and is thought to be associated with less sexual side-effects relative to other antipsychotic medications. This case report describes a 25-year-old man with first episode psychosis who developed RE during treatment with quetiapine which improved with low-dose imipramine. This is the first description of RE occurring with quetiapine and successful treatment of quetiapine-associated RE with imipramine.

  • psychiatry
  • unwanted effects/adverse reactions
  • psychotic disorders (incl schizophrenia)
  • pharmacology and therapeutics

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2018-228539

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors Both MR and ML contributed to the conception of the case report, the drafting and revising and both approved the final draft.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

    • Patient consent for publication Obtained.