Posted by: admin on: September 8, 2011
Here is a comparison study of risperidone used as an injectable and oral form. Injectables had no use than the orals.
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Many patients with schizophrenia do not adhere to treatment. Supervised long-acting injections may, therefore, improve treatment success.
A long-acting injectable preparation of risperidone, a second-generation antipsychotic drug, has been available for some years, but randomized trials in patients with stable schizophrenia have shown no advantage over oral treatment.
Now, long-acting risperidone has been compared with oral treatment for patients with unstable schizophrenia.
The long-acting risperidone group had adverse events at the injection site and more extra pyramidal symptoms.
For patients with unstable schizophrenia, long-acting injectable risperidone was no better than oral treatment and caused more adverse effects.
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