Anemia associated with long-acting injectable aripiprazole in an elderly man
Chia-Liang Wu · 2026
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Chia-Liang Wu wrote a 2026 letter to the editor about a rare blood problem tied to a long-acting antipsychotic shot. A 73-year-old man with schizophrenia had taken aripiprazole pills for over two years, then switched to monthly injections of 400 mg to help adherence. Nine months later his hemoglobin had fallen sharply.
Checks of blood, stool, gut, and scans found no bleeding or other clear cause, though his young red cell count was low at 0.3 percent against a normal range starting at 0.5 percent. Transfusions helped only briefly, so the injections, the sole recent change, were blamed and stopped. The case warns doctors to watch blood counts after switching patients to the long-acting form.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Chia-Liang Wu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 4100 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |