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Malignant Syndrome or Withdrawal Reaction?
We report on a case of a female patient who had serious side effects from treatment with clozapine and chlorpromazine and the appeared to have a withdrawal reaction from cessation of clozapine. During the treatment process she was misdiagnosed as having malignant syndrome. This case highlights the i...
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Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Publishing
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5434273/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28638195 http://dx.doi.org/10.11919/j.issn.1002-0829.216048 |
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| description | We report on a case of a female patient who had serious side effects from treatment with clozapine and chlorpromazine and the appeared to have a withdrawal reaction from cessation of clozapine. During the treatment process she was misdiagnosed as having malignant syndrome. This case highlights the importance of clinicians being able to distinguish malignant syndrome from withdrawal reactions, and to be familiar with treatment and prevention methods for both. |
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| spelling | pubmed-54342732017-06-21 Malignant Syndrome or Withdrawal Reaction? Shanghai Arch Psychiatry Case Report We report on a case of a female patient who had serious side effects from treatment with clozapine and chlorpromazine and the appeared to have a withdrawal reaction from cessation of clozapine. During the treatment process she was misdiagnosed as having malignant syndrome. This case highlights the importance of clinicians being able to distinguish malignant syndrome from withdrawal reactions, and to be familiar with treatment and prevention methods for both. Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Publishing 2016-08-25 2016-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC5434273/ /pubmed/28638195 http://dx.doi.org/10.11919/j.issn.1002-0829.216048 Text en © Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Publishing http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| spellingShingle | Case Report Malignant Syndrome or Withdrawal Reaction? |
| title | Malignant Syndrome or Withdrawal Reaction? |
| title_full | Malignant Syndrome or Withdrawal Reaction? |
| title_fullStr | Malignant Syndrome or Withdrawal Reaction? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Malignant Syndrome or Withdrawal Reaction? |
| title_short | Malignant Syndrome or Withdrawal Reaction? |
| title_sort | malignant syndrome or withdrawal reaction? |
| topic | Case Report |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5434273/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28638195 http://dx.doi.org/10.11919/j.issn.1002-0829.216048 |
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