MANAGEMENT OF CHARLES BONNET SYNDROME IN THE ELDERLY

The case of an 82 year old lady who suffered from vivid episodic complex visual pseudohallucination is presented. The alleviation of symptoms with carbamazepine monotherapy is highlighted. Correction of visual defect as another aspect of the management of Charles Bonnet syndrome in elderly patients...

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Autores principales: Unni, K.E. Sandanandan, Venugopal, M., Gupta, Suparna, Rani, Sudha R., Patro, D.K.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1996
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2970885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21584145
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author Unni, K.E. Sandanandan
Venugopal, M.
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Patro, D.K.
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spelling pubmed-29708852011-05-16 MANAGEMENT OF CHARLES BONNET SYNDROME IN THE ELDERLY Unni, K.E. Sandanandan Venugopal, M. Gupta, Suparna Rani, Sudha R. Patro, D.K. Indian J Psychiatry Case Report The case of an 82 year old lady who suffered from vivid episodic complex visual pseudohallucination is presented. The alleviation of symptoms with carbamazepine monotherapy is highlighted. Correction of visual defect as another aspect of the management of Charles Bonnet syndrome in elderly patients is recommended. Medknow Publications 1996 /pmc/articles/PMC2970885/ /pubmed/21584145 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Unni, K.E. Sandanandan
Venugopal, M.
Gupta, Suparna
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Patro, D.K.
MANAGEMENT OF CHARLES BONNET SYNDROME IN THE ELDERLY
title MANAGEMENT OF CHARLES BONNET SYNDROME IN THE ELDERLY
title_full MANAGEMENT OF CHARLES BONNET SYNDROME IN THE ELDERLY
title_fullStr MANAGEMENT OF CHARLES BONNET SYNDROME IN THE ELDERLY
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title_short MANAGEMENT OF CHARLES BONNET SYNDROME IN THE ELDERLY
title_sort management of charles bonnet syndrome in the elderly
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