Eye-related visual hallucinations: Consider ‘Charles Bonnet syndrome’

The Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS) is typically characterized by visual hallucinations in elderly people without cognitive defects. This article presents the case of an 80-year-old male patient with a one-year history of visual hallucinations, secondary to glaucoma, in both eyes. Neither a dopamine a...

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Autores principales: Cinar, Nilgun, Sahin, Sevki, Karsidag, Sibel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Brief Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3120245/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21586846
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.81038
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description The Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS) is typically characterized by visual hallucinations in elderly people without cognitive defects. This article presents the case of an 80-year-old male patient with a one-year history of visual hallucinations, secondary to glaucoma, in both eyes. Neither a dopamine agonist nor cholinesterase inhibitor therapy improved his symptoms. In this case, the hallucinations were gradually improved after administration of a GABAergic drug, pregabalin, for diabetic polyneuropathy. Placebo-controlled clinical trials would be needed to support this effect of pregabalin, as suggested by this association.
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spelling pubmed-31202452011-06-28 Eye-related visual hallucinations: Consider ‘Charles Bonnet syndrome’ Cinar, Nilgun Sahin, Sevki Karsidag, Sibel Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communications The Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS) is typically characterized by visual hallucinations in elderly people without cognitive defects. This article presents the case of an 80-year-old male patient with a one-year history of visual hallucinations, secondary to glaucoma, in both eyes. Neither a dopamine agonist nor cholinesterase inhibitor therapy improved his symptoms. In this case, the hallucinations were gradually improved after administration of a GABAergic drug, pregabalin, for diabetic polyneuropathy. Placebo-controlled clinical trials would be needed to support this effect of pregabalin, as suggested by this association. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3120245/ /pubmed/21586846 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.81038 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Ophthalmology 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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Eye-related visual hallucinations: Consider ‘Charles Bonnet syndrome’
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title_full_unstemmed Eye-related visual hallucinations: Consider ‘Charles Bonnet syndrome’
title_short Eye-related visual hallucinations: Consider ‘Charles Bonnet syndrome’
title_sort eye-related visual hallucinations: consider ‘charles bonnet syndrome’
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3120245/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.81038
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