Catatonia: Treatment and prognosis - UpToDate
However, failure to recognize and properly treat catatonia can lead to poor outcomes; malignant catatonia in particular can be fatal. This topic reviews the treatment and prognosis of catatonia. The epidemiology, clinical features, assessment, underlying disorders, diagnosis, and differential diagnosis are discussed separately.
Malignant Catatonia Versus Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
Malignant catatonia (MC) is a subtype of catatonia characterized by stupor, mutism, catalepsy, waxy flexibility, negativism, posturing, pyrexia, autonomic dysfunction, rigidity, and increased CPK levels [2-4]. Since NMS and MC can present similarly, diagnostic difficulties arise.
Malignant Catatonia - Core EM
2022年2月1日 · Malignant catatonia is a life-threatening subtype of catatonia, marked by autonomic excitation and instability, rigidity, and delirium. It is critical to quickly diagnose and treat malignant catatonia, as its course is fulminant and progresses rapidly, …
Malignant Catatonia: A Review for the Intensivist - PubMed
2022年7月22日 · Malignant catatonia describes catatonia that presents with clinically significant autonomic abnormalities including change in temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, and respiratory rate.
Catatonia: Clinical Overview of the Diagnosis, Treatment, and …
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome and anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis are also prominent causes of catatonia.
Catatonia: Definition, Causes, Symptoms & Treatment - Cleveland Clinic
The symptoms of malignant catatonia are: Dangerously high body temperature and fever (hyperthermia). Fast heart rate (tachycardia). Sweating (diaphoresis). Unstable blood pressure. Cyanosis (this is low blood oxygen that causes areas of your skin, especially around your lips and fingernails, to turn blue).
Clinical Manifestations, Diagnosis, and Empirical Treatments for Catatonia
In fact, all physicians should screen for malignant catatonia in medically and psychiatrically compromised patients. Malignant catatonia is characterized by the triad of severe rigidity, autonomic nervous system instability, and altered mental status.
Malignant Catatonia: Sepsis or Psychiatric Emergency?
2021年3月31日 · Malignant catatonia is a potentially fatal subtype of catatonia characterized by mutism, rigidity, stereotypy, autonomic dysfunction, and delirium. 1 Although it is similar to neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS), it is classically associated with depression and psychosis rather than with use of psychotropic medications.
Catatonia - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf - National Center for ...
2023年5月8日 · Most episodes of catatonia can be classified as excited, retarded, or malignant. Symptoms can wax, wane, or change during these episodes, and patients affected can have periods of withdrawal and periods of excitation.
Catatonia - EMCrit Project
2022年5月1日 · malignant catatonia (aka lethal catatonia) Malignant catatonia may complicate either hypokinetic catatonia or hyperkinetic catatonia. The key finding in malignant catatonia is catatonia plus autonomic instability (especially hyperthermia, which is required for the diagnosis of malignant catatonia). Autonomic instability: