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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Case Report
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
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description 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, including hyperverbosity, sedative medications, polydipsia (psychogenic and secondary to a comorbidity of diabetes insipidus), and neuroleptic side effects.
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spelling pubmed-37285182013-08-16 A Case of Bipolar Affective Disorder and Aspiration Pneumonia Gerada, Alessandro Dell'Erba, Gaetano Case Rep Psychiatry Case Report 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, including hyperverbosity, sedative medications, polydipsia (psychogenic and secondary to a comorbidity of diabetes insipidus), and neuroleptic side effects. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-07-15 /pmc/articles/PMC3728518/ /pubmed/23956911 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/360348 Text en Copyright © 2013 A. Gerada and G. Dell'Erba. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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