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- Title
Neuroleptic malignant syndrome: the diagnostic dilemma.
- Authors
Karlicic, Ivana Stasevic; Djordjevic, Jelena; Stasevic, Milena; Dejanovic, Slavica Djukic; Pavlovic, Dragan; Jankovic, Slobodan
- Abstract
Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) is a life-threatening, often fatal idiosyncratic reaction to neuroleptic or other drug therapies that antagonise the central dopaminergic neurotransmission. The clinical presentation of NMS is very heterogeneous. The lack of specific levels of symptom severity in currently used diagnostic criteria dims the diagnosis of NMS. Therefore differential diagnosis is of priority, because NMS is a diagnosis of exclusion. The aim of this paper is to present a complex clinical picture in a patient that after a differential diagnostic exclusion of other medical conditions and intoxications is diagnosed as NMS. Case reports such as these help raise awareness of this clinical issue.
- Subjects
NEUROLEPTIC malignant syndrome; DRUG therapy; DOPAMINERGIC neurons
- Publication
Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences, 2016, Vol 7, Issue 2, p162
- ISSN
2394-2053
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5958/2394-2061.2016.00028.8