TY - JOUR AU - Dolp, Reinhard AU - Ansari, Moin AU - Chan, Michael AU - Hassan, Tariq Mahmood PY - 2020/08/20 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - A ‘benign’ extrapyramidal side effect masking a life-threatening neuroleptic malignant syndrome JF - Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences JA - Pak J Med Sci VL - 36 IS - 6 SE - Case Reports DO - 10.12669/pjms.36.6.2963 UR - https://pjms.org.pk/index.php/pjms/article/view/2963 SP - AB - The neuroleptic malignant syndrome is a rare, life-threatening idiosyncratic reaction to neuroleptic medication. The use of newer antipsychotics combined with its rare incidence has made NMS seem as a complication of the past. Here we report a patient in his early 20s suffering from a psychotic disorder developing a life-threatening neuroleptic malignant syndrome on an inpatient psychiatric ward in Canada without the characteristic overt change in autonomic stability. We review the clinical characteristics to facilitate the early recognition of neuroleptic malignant syndromes and discuss why this condition still is highly relevant for practising physicians.doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.6.2963How to cite this:Dolp R, Ansari MA, Chan M, Hassan T. A ‘benign’ extrapyramidal side effect masking a life-threatening neuroleptic malignant syndrome. Pak J Med Sci. 2020;36(6):1429-1432. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.6.2963This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ER -