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A Case of Bipolar Affective Disorder and Aspiration Pneumonia

Adults with mental illness are at a higher risk of aspiration pneumonia than the general population. We describe the case of a patient with bipolar affective disorder and two separate episodes of aspiration pneumonia associated with acute mania. We propose that he had multiple predisposing factors,...

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Autores principales: Gerada, Alessandro, Dell'Erba, Gaetano
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3728518/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23956911
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/360348