A Case of Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome in Pregnancy

Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) is an obstetric emergency. Management of acute psychosis in a pregnant patient remains complicated with limited therapeutic options due to teratogenic effects. We report a case in which a patient’s antipsychotic regimen during a viable pregnancy subsequently led...

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Autores principales: Mittal, Maanvi, Garcia, Phoebe, Lee, Jason P, Agustines, Davin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Obstetrics/Gynecology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6505724/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31114730
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4211
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description Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) is an obstetric emergency. Management of acute psychosis in a pregnant patient remains complicated with limited therapeutic options due to teratogenic effects. We report a case in which a patient’s antipsychotic regimen during a viable pregnancy subsequently led to NMS, and discuss our chosen management for treating NMS.
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spelling pubmed-65057242019-05-21 A Case of Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome in Pregnancy Mittal, Maanvi Garcia, Phoebe Lee, Jason P Agustines, Davin Cureus Obstetrics/Gynecology Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) is an obstetric emergency. Management of acute psychosis in a pregnant patient remains complicated with limited therapeutic options due to teratogenic effects. We report a case in which a patient’s antipsychotic regimen during a viable pregnancy subsequently led to NMS, and discuss our chosen management for treating NMS. Cureus 2019-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6505724/ /pubmed/31114730 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4211 Text en Copyright © 2019, Mittal et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short A Case of Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome in Pregnancy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6505724/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31114730
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4211
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