Fever, confusion, acute kidney injury: is this atypical neuroleptic malignant syndrome following polypharmacy with clozapine and risperidone?

CONCLUSIONS: Atypical NMS is associated with clozapine. This case exposes the potential difficulties in diagnosis, and highlights the importance of considering less common diagnoses in acutely unwell psychiatric patients. PMID: 27194777 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27194777?dopt=Abstract

Source: Australasian Psychiatry - May 17, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Cherry S, Siskind D, Spivak V, Wysoczanski D, Halangoda P Tags: Australas Psychiatry Source Type: research