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Acute cardiac failure in neuroleptic malignant syndrome
Patrick Sparrow1, Dermot Murnaghan, Peter Kearney
1Department of Cardiology, Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland. patsparrow@doctors.net.uk
European Journal of Heart Failure
|August 19, 2003
Abstract:
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.