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A 26-year-old man developed aspiration pneumonia due to clozapine-induced sialorrhea.
The man, who was diagnosed with paranoid type schizophrenia, started receiving antipsychotic treatment with oral clozapine 25mg in the morning and 50mg at bedtime. Four days after initiation of clozapine, he started to experience side effects, including severe drooling, sedation, headache and tachycardia. On the following day, he experienced fever...