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October 1, 2015MedicineOpen Access

A Case Report of Catatonia and Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome With Multiple Treatment Modalities

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Population

A 60-year-old female patient with schizophrenia, suspected pneumonia, urinary tract infection, and retarded…

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Case_report

Follow-up

47 hospital days

Authors

YCYu‐Jie ChiouChang Gung UniversityYLYu LeeKaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial HospitalCLChin-Chuen LinChang Gung University

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Overview

Case of overlapping NMS, catatonia, and infection highlights diagnostic complexity; leaves open optimal rescue strategies after protocol failure.

Structured PICO

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Population
A 60-year-old female patient with schizophrenia, suspected pneumonia, urinary tract infection, and retarded catatonia who developed neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS).
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Intervention
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for 11 sessions.
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Outcome
Improvement in NMS and catatonic symptoms as measured by the Francis-Yacoub NMS rating scale (F-Y scale).

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can be an effective treatment for neuroleptic malignant syndrome when pharmacological treatments fail.

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Chiou et al. (2015) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a709bbe5671bbf00bc2bc4fhttps://doi.org/10.1097/md.0000000000001752
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