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A 75-year-old man developed depression and associated psychotic features on numerous occasions following both initiation and withdrawal of amiodarone [dosage not stated] for atrial fibrillation (AF).
The man, with no previous psychiatric illness, experienced a myocardial infarction in September 1998 and began receiving amiodarone due to AF, after which he suffered anxiety and insomnia [duration of treatment before reaction onset not stated] which spontaneously improved after a few weeks. In February 1999, amiodarone was stopped as a trial discontinuation. After around 6 weeks, he started to develop panic attacks, insomnia and a 'feeling of doom'. The symptoms lasted 3 weeks and then resolved spontaneously.
In April 2002, after his AF recurred, the man restarted amiodarone and again, after around 6 weeks of treatment, he...