[Tardive dyskinesia following discontinuation of neuroleptic therapy in 87-year-old patient]

Abstract

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.

Keywords: dyskinésie tardive; geriatrics; gériatrie; neuro-cognitive disorder; neuroleptic; neuroleptique; sevrage; tardive dyskinesia; trouble neurocognitif; weaning.