THE NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME : REPORT OF THREE CASES

Three patients, one male and two females who developed neuroleptic malignant syndrome following exposure to depot and oral neuroleptic are presented. The patients satisfied Levenson′s criteria for diagnosis. Bromocriptine and Electro Convulsive Therapy were found effective whereas trihexyphenidyl pr...

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Autores principales: Sharma, R.C., Thakur, S., Sharma, Vijay
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1996
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2972414/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21584154
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description Three patients, one male and two females who developed neuroleptic malignant syndrome following exposure to depot and oral neuroleptic are presented. The patients satisfied Levenson′s criteria for diagnosis. Bromocriptine and Electro Convulsive Therapy were found effective whereas trihexyphenidyl proved unsatisfactory in the treatment. All the patients recovered completely without complications.
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spelling pubmed-29724142011-05-16 THE NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME : REPORT OF THREE CASES Sharma, R.C. Thakur, S. Sharma, Vijay Indian J Psychiatry Case Report Three patients, one male and two females who developed neuroleptic malignant syndrome following exposure to depot and oral neuroleptic are presented. The patients satisfied Levenson′s criteria for diagnosis. Bromocriptine and Electro Convulsive Therapy were found effective whereas trihexyphenidyl proved unsatisfactory in the treatment. All the patients recovered completely without complications. Medknow Publications 1996 /pmc/articles/PMC2972414/ /pubmed/21584154 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full THE NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME : REPORT OF THREE CASES
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title_short THE NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME : REPORT OF THREE CASES
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