Subdural haematoma presenting as catatonia in a 20-year-old male: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Catatonia is a common presentation to psychiatric services in developing countries. Medical causes of catatonia are common and often missed. Identifying causes for catatonia is important not only to guide proper management but to determine prognostic outcomes CASE PRESENTATION: We repo...

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Autores principales: James, Bawo Onesirosan, Omoaregba, Joyce Ohiole, Lawani, Ambrose Onivefu, Ikeji, Charles Onyenibedi, Igbinowanhia, Nosa Godwin
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2827082/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20181202
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8032
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author James, Bawo Onesirosan
Omoaregba, Joyce Ohiole
Lawani, Ambrose Onivefu
Ikeji, Charles Onyenibedi
Igbinowanhia, Nosa Godwin
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Omoaregba, Joyce Ohiole
Lawani, Ambrose Onivefu
Ikeji, Charles Onyenibedi
Igbinowanhia, Nosa Godwin
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description INTRODUCTION: Catatonia is a common presentation to psychiatric services in developing countries. Medical causes of catatonia are common and often missed. Identifying causes for catatonia is important not only to guide proper management but to determine prognostic outcomes CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of a 20-year-old male who presented with catatonia. Subsequent investigations revealed a chronic subdural haematoma. Implications of late presentation to orthodox services are discussed. CONCLUSION: Careful clinical observation, investigation and a high index of suspicion are necessary to effectively manage this condition.
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spelling pubmed-28270822010-02-24 Subdural haematoma presenting as catatonia in a 20-year-old male: a case report James, Bawo Onesirosan Omoaregba, Joyce Ohiole Lawani, Ambrose Onivefu Ikeji, Charles Onyenibedi Igbinowanhia, Nosa Godwin Cases J Research article INTRODUCTION: Catatonia is a common presentation to psychiatric services in developing countries. Medical causes of catatonia are common and often missed. Identifying causes for catatonia is important not only to guide proper management but to determine prognostic outcomes CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of a 20-year-old male who presented with catatonia. Subsequent investigations revealed a chronic subdural haematoma. Implications of late presentation to orthodox services are discussed. CONCLUSION: Careful clinical observation, investigation and a high index of suspicion are necessary to effectively manage this condition. BioMed Central 2009-09-03 /pmc/articles/PMC2827082/ /pubmed/20181202 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8032 Text en Copyright ©2009 James et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Research article
James, Bawo Onesirosan
Omoaregba, Joyce Ohiole
Lawani, Ambrose Onivefu
Ikeji, Charles Onyenibedi
Igbinowanhia, Nosa Godwin
Subdural haematoma presenting as catatonia in a 20-year-old male: a case report
title Subdural haematoma presenting as catatonia in a 20-year-old male: a case report
title_full Subdural haematoma presenting as catatonia in a 20-year-old male: a case report
title_fullStr Subdural haematoma presenting as catatonia in a 20-year-old male: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Subdural haematoma presenting as catatonia in a 20-year-old male: a case report
title_short Subdural haematoma presenting as catatonia in a 20-year-old male: a case report
title_sort subdural haematoma presenting as catatonia in a 20-year-old male: a case report
topic Research article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2827082/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20181202
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8032
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