Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
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Acta Anaesthesiol Scand · Jan 1999
Case ReportsMalignant hyperthermia and neuroleptic malignant syndrome in a patient during treatment for acute asthma.
Acute asthma is well known to provoke complications. We report the case of a patient who needed intubation and mechanical ventilation for acute asthma. Despite a treatment with corticosteroids, bronchodilators, neuromuscular blocking drugs and magnesium sulfate, the situation remained uncontrolled and as a last resort, halothane became necessary. ⋯ The links between malignant hyperthermia and neuroleptic malignant syndrome remain unclear. Although these two pathologies share the same physiopathology, symptomatology and treatment, they are clearly individualized. This case seems to be the first description of their occurrence in the same patient.