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Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome and Diabetic Keto-acidosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

C. de Boer*
Affiliation:
The Princess Royal Hospital, West Wing, Colwell Road, Haywards Heath, Sussex RH16 4EZ
H. P. Gaete
Affiliation:
The Princess Royal Hospital, West Wing, Colwell Road, Haywards Heath, Sussex RH16 4EZ
*
Senior Registrar in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Westcotes House, Westcotes Drive, Leicester LE3 0QU

Abstract

A patient suffering from schizophrenia developed diabetic keto-acidosis and NMS after treatment with neuroleptics. The combination of two uncommon complications of treatment with neuroleptics proved fatal.

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Brief Reports
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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