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Anticholinergic syndrome is a confusional state with characteristic features related to dysfunction of the autonomic parasympathetic (cholinergic) nervous system. Symptoms classified into systemic and CNS manifestations: Systemic (peripheral) symptoms: blurred vision, photophobia, nonreactive mydriasis, loss of accommodation response, flushed and dry skin, dry mouth, tachycardia, hypertension and fever. Gastrointestinal and urinary motility are frequently reduced. Central Anticholinergic Syndrome is an acute psychosis-like picture characterized by delirium, agitation, disorientation, and visual hallucinations. Ataxia, choreoathetosis, myoclonus and seizures may also occur without peripheral symptoms.
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