PMID: 6108550Oct 25, 1980Paper

Acute respiratory failure during long-term treatment with neuroleptic drugs (author's transl)

La Nouvelle presse médicale
F HilpertP Auzépy

Abstract

Five cases of respiratory failure with pneumonia in psychiatric patients under-going neuroleptic treatment are described. These complications are related to the very important extrapyramidal syndrome which may occur in patients being treated with these drugs; the pneumonia evolves spontaneously and has a rather poor prognosis, in spite of respiratory intensive care.

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