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The neuroleptic malignant syndrome
R H Park1, H Jones, J G O'Donnell
1Department of Medicine, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow.
Scottish Medical Journal
|October 1, 1987
Abstract:
A fatal case of the neuroleptic malignant syndrome in a young lady with paranoid schizophrenia. Cardiovascular collapse was due to profound hyperkalaemia secondary to rhabdomyolysis. We advise immediate estimation of serum potassium in all suspected cases.