Resumo
Definição
História e exame físico
Principais fatores diagnósticos
- presença de fatores de risco
- estado mental alterado
- rigidez muscular
- disfunção autonômica
- hipertermia
- história psiquiátrica
Outros fatores diagnósticos
- história de deficiência de ferro
- história de doença de Wilson
Fatores de risco
- exposição a medicamentos antipsicóticos
- anormalidade estrutural do cérebro
- supressão abrupta de medicamentos dopaminérgicos
- idade avançada
- agitação preexistente
- acatisia
- sexo masculino
- deficiência de ferro
- catatonia
- desidratação preexistente
- exposição a antagonistas dopaminérgicos e outros antipsicóticos
Investigações diagnósticas
Primeiras investigações a serem solicitadas
- Hemograma completo
- creatina quinase sérica
- perfil metabólico básico
- tomografia computadorizada (TC) cranioencefálica
- ressonância nuclear magnética (RNM) cranioencefálica
- níveis de mioglobina e urinálise
- urocultura
- hemocultura
- punção lombar
- análise toxicológica
- radiografia torácica
Algoritmo de tratamento
Colaboradores
Autores
Ronald J. Gurrera, MD
Associate Professor
Harvard Medical School
Boston
MA
Declarações
RJG declares that he has no competing interests.
Agradecimentos
Dr Ronald J. Gurrera would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Peter F. Buckley, a previous contributor to this topic.
Declarações
PFB is on the advisory board (a voluntary, uncompensated role) of the Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome Information Service. He is also a consultant to Janssen Pharmaceutica and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). He is conducting or has recently conducted research with funding support from AstraZeneca, NIMH, Janssen Pharmaceutica, Pfizer, Solvay, and Wyeth. Previous consultancy and research support has been from Abbott, Alamo Pharmaceuticals, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Lundbeck, Janssen Pharmaceutica, Merck, NIMH, Roche Diagnostics, Pfizer, Solvay, and Wyeth. PFB has no patents or stock in any company. He is an author of several references cited in this topic. PFB is a co-investigator on a study also involving Dr John Lauriello and Dr Daniel R. Wilson, who were reviewers for this topic.
Revisores
Alison Haddow, MBBS
Consultant Psychiatrist
Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer
Royal Cornhill Hospital
Aberdeen
UK
Declarações
AH declares that she has no competing interests.
John Lauriello, MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Psychiatry
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia
MO
Declarações
JL declares that he has no competing interests.
Ganesh Gopalakrishna, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia
MO
Declarações
GG declares that he has no competing interests.
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