RESUMO
Heart failure is a frequent pathology in the elderly. In particular, it is responsible for many hospitalizations. A distinction is made between chronic and acute forms of heart failure. The management of these forms of heart failure is well established, with treatment recommendations that are regularly updated on the basis of new studies.
Assuntos
Insuficiência Cardíaca , Humanos , Idoso , Insuficiência Cardíaca/terapiaRESUMO
In the absence of a therapeutic alternative, the use of neuroleptics in geriatrics should be limited to the bare minimum, given their potentially serious deleterious effects in frail elderly patients. Dyskinesia is one of their most common side effects. Case of an elderly patient in whom the dyskinesia was revealed following abrupt cessation of a neuroleptic taken in the long term with discussions of the etiological hypotheses of this rare situation, which nevertheless deserve to be known.