mutism/fever

OBJECTIVE To report and discuss a case of neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) with delayed onset of fever in a patient taking risperidone. METHODS A 59-year-old white female presented with progressive weakness, confusion, and disorientation 10 days after restarting risperidone 2 mg/day therapy for

A 33-month-old girl presented with 3 days of fever and 1 day of multiple paroxysmal episodes of screaming with apparent unresponsiveness, flexed lower extremities, clenched hands, and upward eye deviation. These events lasted seconds to a minute at a time and occurred only during sleep. She slept

Although neurological manifestations of typhoid fever was thought to be obsolete from modern world, emergence of multidrug resistant typhoid bacilli and reporting of outbreak of typhoid fever with a range of early neuropsychiatric manifestations from various parts of world has led clinicians and

BACKGROUND Serotonin syndrome (SS) is a potentially life-threatening condition that can be caused by use of proserotonergic drugs. Several studies have reported that combined administration of various medications may induce SS. We report a case of SS in a patient who was being treated with

A 64-year-old Japanese woman with Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS) is reported. She was admitted to our hospital for progressive amnesia, twitching of the right upper limb, and difficulty in speaking and walking for 5 months. Physical examination revealed a fever, tachycardia, and

BACKGROUND Cerebellar mutism in children occurs after posterior fossa tumor resection and can have lasting effects on cognition, language, and behavior. Cerebellar mutism in acute disseminated encephalomyelitis is rare. METHODS A 7-year-old boy with a 3-day history of fever, vomiting, and diarrhea

Childhood deafness interferes with the cognitive development of the child, so it is considered a major handicap. The present work was carried out to reveal possible risk factors of deaf-mutism and the magnitude of each. The case control design was chosen as a research methodology. A 50% sample of

The clinical cases described are characterized by rigidity, mutism and hyperthermia, with cutaneous pallor and diaphoresis. This symptomatology marks the "malignant neuroleptic syndrome" and can be found, at times, in parkinsonians on "drug holiday". The cases described, which comprehend patients

We report a case of 20 Years old girl who presented with catatonia resulting from cerebral lupus. There are few cases of catatonia being described in Systemic Lupus Erythmatoses (SLE). The patient presented to us with fever and altered sensorium. She was initially treated on lines of Acute Bacterial

We report a 6-year-old girl with Japanese B encephalitis. The initial symptoms were high fever, headache and vomiting. On the second day of illness, she developed hemiconvulsion and was admitted to our hospital. Physical examination demonstrated a stiff neck. C-reactive protein elevated to 22.7

The case is a 69-year-old female who was admitted to our hospital under the diagnosis of normal pressure hydrocephalus secondary to cerebral infarction. V-P shunt was performed and postoperative course was uneventful until 7 months after operation, when she developed meningitis. Since then the level

BACKGROUND Catatonia can be divided into non-malignant or malignant. The latter is characterized by autonomic instability, exhibiting high fever, tachycardia and hypertension, and is regarded as a fulminant and rapidly progressive subtype. METHODS This article reports a case of malignant catatonia

A lymphography was performed as a diagnostic procedure in a 69-year-old female patient hospitalized for protracted fever. Akinetic mutism with left hemiparesis occurred 10 minutes after the injection of ultrafluid lipiodol. The patient died 13 days later. Neurologic complications of lymphography are