Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Haffenden, Verity
• Patel, Anish

Titel

Serotonin syndrome in asymptomatic Huntington's disease

Ist Teil von

• Progress in neurology and psychiatry (Guildford), 2018-01, Vol.22 (1), p.21-23

Ort / Verlag

Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

EZB-FREE-00999 freely available EZB journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Serotonin syndrome is a rare and serious condition most often resulting from iatrogenic insult; the prescriber's pen is sometimes the most poisonous. Here, Dr Haffenden and Dr Patel discuss a complex case of serotonin syndrome in a patient with genetically proven, but not yet symptomatic, Huntington's disease and chronic renal impairment. A screening process is proposed to recognise the multitude of precipitating factors, which aligned in this case, and could either alter our prescribing or expedite recognition.