Syndrome Neuro-Vegetatif Malin
The bulletin of the Yamaguchi Medical School Volume 23 Issue 3-4
Page 237-245
published_at 1976-12
Title
Syndrome Neuro-Vegetatif Malin
Creators
Yamada Michio
Creators
Kusunose Yukio
Creators
Ohta Tamio
Creators
Kashiwamura Koichi
Creators
Takamatsu Shigeru
Creators
Ishimaru Toranosuke
Creators
Murata Masato
Creators
Ohsaki Mitsuki
Source Identifiers
Three cases of presumed syndrome malin caused by neuroleptic medication were presented. These patients were all juvenile, aged around 20 years, with one of them having mental subnormality. These findings strongly suggest fragility somewhere in the central nervous system. It seems also quite likely that a debility resulting from refusal to take food, insomnia and psychomotor excitement and unfavorable climatic conditions (e.g. high temperature and high humidity) might play a major role in the causation of syndrome malin. Our present cases point to the possibility that the use of haloperidol, levomepromazine, chlorpromazine, fluphenazine enanthate or a combination of chlorpromazine and prmethazine, among other neuroleptic drugs currently available, might be implicated as a causative agent. In this connection, it is interesting to note that medication with chlorpromazine brought about a symptomatic remission in one of our cases.
Languages
eng
Resource Type
departmental bulletin paper
Publishers
Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine
Date Issued
1976-12
File Version
Version of Record
Access Rights
open access
Relations
[ISSN]0513-1812
[NCID]AA00594272
Schools
医学部