Catatonic Symptoms Appearing before Autonomic Symptoms Help Distinguish Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome from Malignant Catatonia

A 42-year-old Japanese woman with a 10-year history of schizophrenia was admitted due to a disturbance in consciousness that met the diagnostic criteria for both neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) and malignant catatonia. Despite systemic supportive treatments, the catatonic symptoms preceding aut...

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Published in:Intern Med
Main Authors: Komatsu, Takayuki, Nomura, Tomohisa, Takami, Hiroki, Sakamoto, So, Mizuno, Keiko, Sekii, Hajime, Hatta, Kotaro, Sugita, Manabu
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2016
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Case Report
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5088557/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27725556
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