Pharmacothérapie Pour Contrôler L'agitation Chez Les Patients Ayant des Déficits Cognitifs

Agitation is a difficult problem to manage when patients suffer from cognitive impairment of varied etiology. In this article, the author proposes a combination of trazodone and tryptophan as a therapeutic possibility. The author presents an illustrative case. The patient was a 67 year old woman with a left cerebrovascular accident and a global aphasia who presented behaviour problems: she was restless, agitated, noisy, aggressive, screaming, howling and crying. In spite of treatment with neuroleptic, anxiolytic and antidepressive medication, behaviour did not improve. The use of a combination of trazodone and tryptophan was successful.