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Excited Delirium and Sudden Death: A Syndromal Disorder at the Extreme End of the Neuropsychiatric Continuum [PDF]
, 2016 Over the past decade, the excited delirium syndrome (ExDS) has raised continuous controversy regarding the cause and manner of death of some highly agitated persons who die in police custody, during physical restraint or incapacitation by electrical ...
Deborah C. Mash
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NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME [PDF]
Southern Medical Journal, 1990 Neuroleptic malignant syndrome is a life-threatening reaction of neuroleptic medication. The estimated incidence rate of neuroleptic malignant syndrome is between 1% and 1.5% of patients treated with neuroleptics. The reported mortality rate varies from 11% to 38%.
M S, Jahan, A I, Farooque, Z, Wahid
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Katatones Dilemma unter Kombinationsbehandlung mit Lithium und Risperidon [PDF]
, 2010 OBJECTIVE: The case of a schizoaffective patient suffering from a malignant catatonic syndrome following combined lithium-risperidone therapy is explored. METHOD: A case report and relevant deliberations regarding pathophysiology of the catatonic dilemma
Böker, H +3 more
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Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 2016 Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) is a rare, life-threatening idiosyncratic reaction secondary to antipsychotic medication. Hyponatremia frequently develops in elderly patients and also psychiatric patients and may associate with neuroleptic malignant
Bilge Burcak Annagur, Nursel Akbaba
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Olanzapine-Induced Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2017 Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) is a rare but life-threatening idiosyncratic side effect resulting from neuroleptic drugs. NMS mainly occurs in patients treated with high-potency typical antipsychotics, but rarely caused by atypical antipsychotics ...
Seyedhamze Hosseini, Forouzan Elyasi
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Metoclopramide Neurological Side Effects Screening; A Pharmacovigilence Study in Romanian Community Pharmacies [PDF]
, 2015 Background. Metoclopramide is a pharmacological agent frequently used in therapy against nausea and vomiting that can occur in indigestion, motion sickness, gastric ulcer, pyloric spasm and after surgery as a side effect of some anesthetics.
Junghină, Adrian +4 more
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Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2009 Introduction A rare side effect of antipsychotic medication is neuroleptic malignant syndrome, mainly characterized by hyperthermia, altered mental state, haemodynamic dysregulation, elevated serum creatine kinase and rigor.
Storm Christian +6 more
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Reversible splenial lesion syndrome in neuroleptic malignant syndrome. [PDF]
, 2009 Background: Reversible focal lesions in the splenium of the corpus callosum (SCC) or reversible splenial lesion syndrome are rare and little is known about their pathophysiology.
Al-Edrus, Sharifah Aishah +5 more
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Case Reports in Medicine, 2012 Electroconvulsive therapy can be effective in severe or treatment resistant neuroleptic malignant syndrome patients. Anesthesia and use of muscle relaxant agents for electroconvulsive therapy in such patients may encounter anesthesiologists with specific
Modabber Arasteh +2 more
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Clozapine Induced Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome [PDF]
Korean Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2017 Neuroleptic malignant syndrome is a rare, but potentially life-threatening adverse event associated with the use of neuroleptic agents. We describe the case of a 47-year-old schizophrenic woman who was treated with clozapine for years.
Yong Suk Jo +4 more
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