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Clozapine-induced pulmonary embolism in a patient with no pre-existing risk factors: A case report.

Jing Yi KwanMaha Noor
Published in: Clinical case reports (2022)
We report the case of a 51-year-old Caucasian woman who developed a pulmonary embolism in the absence of any pre-existing risk factors for VTE, 3 weeks following clozapine initiation for treatment resistant paranoid schizophrenia. She was initially misdiagnosed and treated for suspected COVID-19 infection.
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