Catatonia in patients with dementia: a case report

Catatonia occurring as part of a clinical picture of dementia has been reported with almost all types of dementia. It remains under-diagnosed in older adults and those with dementia. We review a case of a young patient admitted in our psychiatric department for catatonia and after efficient treatmen...

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Autores principales: Younes, Samira, Khouadja, Sabria, Younes, Samia, Zarrouk, Lazhar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6711697/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31489095
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.33.117.18629
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author Younes, Samira
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Zarrouk, Lazhar
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description Catatonia occurring as part of a clinical picture of dementia has been reported with almost all types of dementia. It remains under-diagnosed in older adults and those with dementia. We review a case of a young patient admitted in our psychiatric department for catatonia and after efficient treatment with Lorazepam, assessment revealed a dementia. Catatonia is a severe neuropsychiatric syndrome with an excellent prognosis if recognized and treated without delay.
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spelling pubmed-67116972019-09-05 Catatonia in patients with dementia: a case report Younes, Samira Khouadja, Sabria Younes, Samia Zarrouk, Lazhar Pan Afr Med J Case Report Catatonia occurring as part of a clinical picture of dementia has been reported with almost all types of dementia. It remains under-diagnosed in older adults and those with dementia. We review a case of a young patient admitted in our psychiatric department for catatonia and after efficient treatment with Lorazepam, assessment revealed a dementia. Catatonia is a severe neuropsychiatric syndrome with an excellent prognosis if recognized and treated without delay. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2019-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6711697/ /pubmed/31489095 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.33.117.18629 Text en © Samira Younes et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of 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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Catatonia in patients with dementia: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6711697/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31489095
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.33.117.18629
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