Primary Angiitis of the Central Nervous System: From Psychiatry to Neurology

We present a case of a 54-year-old man with primary angiitis of the central nervous system (PACNS) who was initially admitted to a psychiatric clinic with a diagnosis of delirium. We discuss the difficulty in establishing the diagnosis of PACNS and provide the reader with some recommendations on how...

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Autores principales: Leonardi, Joel, Saleh, Christian, Jaszczuk, Phillip, Blackham, Kristine A., Zechel, Sabrina, Wilmes, Stefanie, Hund-Georgiadis, Margret
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6875412/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31781439
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/8074258
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author Leonardi, Joel
Saleh, Christian
Jaszczuk, Phillip
Blackham, Kristine A.
Zechel, Sabrina
Wilmes, Stefanie
Hund-Georgiadis, Margret
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description We present a case of a 54-year-old man with primary angiitis of the central nervous system (PACNS) who was initially admitted to a psychiatric clinic with a diagnosis of delirium. We discuss the difficulty in establishing the diagnosis of PACNS and provide the reader with some recommendations on how to promptly and correctly diagnose this disease in order to avoid potentially lethal outcomes.
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spelling pubmed-68754122019-11-28 Primary Angiitis of the Central Nervous System: From Psychiatry to Neurology Leonardi, Joel Saleh, Christian Jaszczuk, Phillip Blackham, Kristine A. Zechel, Sabrina Wilmes, Stefanie Hund-Georgiadis, Margret Case Rep Neurol Med Case Report We present a case of a 54-year-old man with primary angiitis of the central nervous system (PACNS) who was initially admitted to a psychiatric clinic with a diagnosis of delirium. We discuss the difficulty in establishing the diagnosis of PACNS and provide the reader with some recommendations on how to promptly and correctly diagnose this disease in order to avoid potentially lethal outcomes. Hindawi 2019-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC6875412/ /pubmed/31781439 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/8074258 Text en Copyright © 2019 Joel Leonardi et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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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Primary Angiitis of the Central Nervous System: From Psychiatry to Neurology
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