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  • Title: The syndrome of lethal catatonia.
    Author: Tang CP, Leung CM, Ungvari GS, Leung WK.
    Journal: Singapore Med J; 1995 Aug; 36(4):400-2. PubMed ID: 8919156.
    Abstract:
    Lethal catatonia (LC) is a life-threatening neuropsychiatric syndrome associated with a host of psychiatric, neurologic and medical conditions. The clinical picture is characterised by fragmented psychotic symptoms, catatonic phenomena particularly alternating stupor and agitation, altered consciousness, hyperthermia and other autonomic disturbances. A case of LC in a 19-year-old Chinese woman showing a dramatic response to lorazepam and bromocriptine is described and a brief overview of the contemporary literature is provided.
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