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A 42-year-old woman with a long-standing diagnosis of schizophrenia experienced two toxic reactions to 1200 mg of chlorpromazine while awaiting surgery for a locally metastatic carcinoma of the cervix. These reactions, which involved fever, increased pulse and respirations, and acute onset of obtundation, and which cleared after several hours, were produced by a medication and dose which had been well tolerated prior to the preoperative period. These reactions, typical of an acute anticholinergic syndrome, were precipitated by an interaction of the drug and a stress-induced change in her psychological state, due to anxiety about her cancer and impending surgery. This type of reaction has not been reported previously in a clinical setting.
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