Improvement of Tardive Dyskinesias with Olanzapine

Table 1

Cases of tardive dyskinesia (TD) induced by antipsychotics that were improved by olanzapine.

Author	Number of patients		Antipsychotic that induced TD	Olanzapine dose (mg/day)	Comedication	Time to TD improvement
Almeida [20]	One		Haloperidol	10		5 weeks
O’Brien and Barber [21]	One		Trifluopérazine, sulpiride, and rispéridone	5		6 months
Raja et al. [22]	Three	Case 1,; Case 2, and; Case 3	Haloperidol decanoate, haloperidol decanoate, and haloperidol	20, 10, and 15		2, 5, and 2 weeks
Haberfellner [23]	One		Flupenthixol decanoate	15		4 months
Esel et al. [16]	One		Zuclopenthixol, haloperidol, and pimozide	10		2 months
Agarwal and Kumar [24]	One		Risperidone	5		2 weeks
İpekçi and Birsöz [25]	One		Risperidone	10		2 weeks
Lykouras et al. [17]	Two	Case 1 and; Case 2	Trifluopérazine and biperiden and haloperidol	17.5 and 10		8 months and; one and half year
Kučerová [26]	Two	Case 1 and; Case 2	Conventional antipsychotics and thioridazine and risperidone	10 and 15		12 days and; 2 months
Sacchetti and Valsecchi [18]	One		Haloperidol	20		4 weeks
Koch et al. [19]	One		Halopéridol	NA	Tétrabénazine and tiapride	2 weeks

NA, not available.