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Chronic Post-stroke Psychosis with Left Cortical and Bilateral Inferior Cerebellar Involvement

Post-stroke psychosis is the presence of delusions and/or hallucinations that result from an infarct in the cerebrovascular network. Involvement of a predominantly right-sided cortical pathology has been described in triggering the psychosis. In identified cases, patients often have little to no pri...

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Autores principales: Parfianowicz, Dominic, Espiridion, Eduardo D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6970439/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31993274
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6437
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description Post-stroke psychosis is the presence of delusions and/or hallucinations that result from an infarct in the cerebrovascular network. Involvement of a predominantly right-sided cortical pathology has been described in triggering the psychosis. In identified cases, patients often have little to no prior psychiatric history. We report a case of a 70-year-old female with chronic post-stroke psychosis consisting of auditory hallucinations and persecutory delusions. Our patient serves as a unique case in not only contributing to the limited number of documentations overall, but also in highlighting a presentation with infarction of the left parietal-temporal-occipital cortex and bilateral inferior cerebellum.
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spelling pubmed-69704392020-01-28 Chronic Post-stroke Psychosis with Left Cortical and Bilateral Inferior Cerebellar Involvement Parfianowicz, Dominic Espiridion, Eduardo D Cureus Neurology Post-stroke psychosis is the presence of delusions and/or hallucinations that result from an infarct in the cerebrovascular network. Involvement of a predominantly right-sided cortical pathology has been described in triggering the psychosis. In identified cases, patients often have little to no prior psychiatric history. We report a case of a 70-year-old female with chronic post-stroke psychosis consisting of auditory hallucinations and persecutory delusions. Our patient serves as a unique case in not only contributing to the limited number of documentations overall, but also in highlighting a presentation with infarction of the left parietal-temporal-occipital cortex and bilateral inferior cerebellum. Cureus 2019-12-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6970439/ /pubmed/31993274 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6437 Text en Copyright © 2019, Parfianowicz et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
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Chronic Post-stroke Psychosis with Left Cortical and Bilateral Inferior Cerebellar Involvement
title Chronic Post-stroke Psychosis with Left Cortical and Bilateral Inferior Cerebellar Involvement
title_full Chronic Post-stroke Psychosis with Left Cortical and Bilateral Inferior Cerebellar Involvement
title_fullStr Chronic Post-stroke Psychosis with Left Cortical and Bilateral Inferior Cerebellar Involvement
title_full_unstemmed Chronic Post-stroke Psychosis with Left Cortical and Bilateral Inferior Cerebellar Involvement
title_short Chronic Post-stroke Psychosis with Left Cortical and Bilateral Inferior Cerebellar Involvement
title_sort chronic post-stroke psychosis with left cortical and bilateral inferior cerebellar involvement
topic Neurology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6970439/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31993274
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