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Tricyclics and malignant syndrome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

M Abbar ,
B Carlander  and
D Castelnau
M Abbar
Affiliation:
Service de Psychologie Médicale, Hôpital Lapeyronie, 34059 Montpellier
B Carlander*
Affiliation:
Service de Neurologie B, Hôpital Gui-de-Chauliac, 34059 Montpellier, France
D Castelnau
Affiliation:
Service de Psychologie Médicale, Hôpital Lapeyronie, 34059 Montpellier
*
*Correspondence and reprints.
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Summary

A clinical and biological pattern similar to that of neuroleptic malignant syndrome is reported in a depressed patient treated with trimipramine, without any concomitant use of neuroleptics. The antidopaminergic properties of this drug, one of the tricyclic antidepressants, may account for this uncommon side effect.

Keywords

trimipraminetricyclic antidepressantsmalignant syndrome
Type
Case report
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , 1996 , pp. 212 - 213
Copyright
Copyright © Elsevier, Paris 1996

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