Population
A 65-year-old Japanese woman with Parkinson's disease, later diagnosed with Lewy body disease, presenting…
Design
Case_report
Key result
Dantrolene administration successfully treated neuroleptic malignant syndrome presenting as an akinetic crisis associated with sepsis in a patient with Lewy body disease.
Authors
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May support dantrolene in akinetic crisis with sepsis in Lewy body disease; leaves open confirmation in prospective studies.
Case Report (n=1)
No
Physicians should consider neuroleptic malignant syndrome early in patients with Parkinson's disease and sepsis, even if diagnostic criteria are not fully met.
Manabe et al. (2019) conducted a case report in Lewy body disease with neuroleptic malignant syndrome and sepsis (n=1). Dantrolene was evaluated on Symptom resolution. Dantrolene administration successfully treated neuroleptic malignant syndrome presenting as an akinetic crisis associated with sepsis in a patient with Lewy body disease.
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