3 结果
OBJECTIVE
To report catatonia in neurosyphilis with elevated creatine phosphokinase (CPK) and to understand the pharmacodynamics of catatonia.
METHODS
Case Report.
RESULTS
We encountered catatonia in a man with neurosyphilis after increasing aripiprazole and valproate (drugs reported to improve
Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) is a catatonic-like syndrome of uncertain etiology occurring in patients taking dopamine blocking medications. The paper describes how NMS presents and is treated and reports the case of a patient with undetected neurosyphilis who developed NMS. The case
Orthostatic hypotension (OH) must be distinguished from supine hypotension made worse by standing up and, in particular, from vasovagal syncope. At first approximation, asympathicotonic invariable pulse OH virtually always related to an organic lesion of the baroreflex arch must be distinguished