Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-sxzjt Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-24T16:16:04.648Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Treatment of Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

P. D. White*
Affiliation:
King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, Camberwell, London SE5 9RS
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Correspondence
Copyright
Copyright © 1984 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

References

Crow, T. J. (1980) Molecular pathology of schizophrenia: more than one disease process? British Medical Journal, 280, 66–8.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Granato, J. E., Stern, B. J., Ringel, A., Karim, A. H., Krumholz, A., Coyle, J. & Adler, S. (1983) Neuroleptic malignant syndrome: successful treatment with dantrolene and bromocriptine. Annals of Neurology, 14, 8990.Google Scholar
Marsden, C. D. & Jenner, P. (1980) The pathophysiology of extrapyramidal side-effects of neuroleptic drugs. Psychological Medicine, 10, 5572.Google Scholar
Mueller, P. S., Vester, J. W. & Fermaglich, J. (1983) Neuroleptic malignant syndrome: successful treatment with bromocriptine. Journal of the American Medical Association, 249, 386–8.Google ScholarPubMed
White, P. D. (1983) Neuroleptic malignant syndrome. British Medical Journal, 287, 561.Google Scholar
Zubenko, G. & Pope, H. G. (1983) Management of a case of neuroleptic malignant syndrome with bromocriptine. American Journal of Psychiatry, 140, 1619–20.Google ScholarPubMed
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.