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Highlights a rare case of acute cardiac failure in neuroleptic malignant syndrome with shared histological changes in cardiac and skeletal muscle.
We present a case of rapid onset acute cardiac failure developing as part of neuroleptic malignant syndrome in a 35-year-old woman following treatment with thioridazine and lithium. Post mortem histology of cardiac and skeletal muscle showed similar changes of focal cellular necrosis and vacuolation suggesting a common disease process.
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