Time for lessons from the first wave of SARS-CoV-2 epidemic. A case report of a patient with acute psychosis and COVID-19 and later virus reactivation

A case of a middle-aged male, suffering from acute psychosis while in self-isolation due to COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) is presented. The patient required urgent hospital admission due to psychosis, which was only possible to COVID-19 unit of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the time...

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Autores principales: Saje, Marko, Prebil, Karla, Kores Plesnicar, Blanka
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Asociación Universitaria de Zaragoza para el Progreso de la Psiquiatría y la Salud Mental. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. 2021
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7834918/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33518880
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpsy.2020.12.002
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description A case of a middle-aged male, suffering from acute psychosis while in self-isolation due to COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) is presented. The patient required urgent hospital admission due to psychosis, which was only possible to COVID-19 unit of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the time. After transfer to psychiatric hospital, stool sample, taken as an additional preventive measure, was positive for the novel coronavirus. In addition, the patient experienced spontaneous virus reactivation few weeks later. This case report describes certain dilemmas, based on care for patients with mental illness as Europe stands on the brink of COVID-19 second wave.
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spelling pubmed-78349182021-01-26 Time for lessons from the first wave of SARS-CoV-2 epidemic. A case report of a patient with acute psychosis and COVID-19 and later virus reactivation Saje, Marko Prebil, Karla Kores Plesnicar, Blanka Eur J Psychiatry Short Communication A case of a middle-aged male, suffering from acute psychosis while in self-isolation due to COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) is presented. The patient required urgent hospital admission due to psychosis, which was only possible to COVID-19 unit of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the time. After transfer to psychiatric hospital, stool sample, taken as an additional preventive measure, was positive for the novel coronavirus. In addition, the patient experienced spontaneous virus reactivation few weeks later. This case report describes certain dilemmas, based on care for patients with mental illness as Europe stands on the brink of COVID-19 second wave. Asociación Universitaria de Zaragoza para el Progreso de la Psiquiatría y la Salud Mental. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. 2021 2020-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7834918/ /pubmed/33518880 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpsy.2020.12.002 Text en © 2020 Asociación Universitaria de Zaragoza para el Progreso de la Psiquiatría y la Salud Mental. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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title_full Time for lessons from the first wave of SARS-CoV-2 epidemic. A case report of a patient with acute psychosis and COVID-19 and later virus reactivation
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title_full_unstemmed Time for lessons from the first wave of SARS-CoV-2 epidemic. A case report of a patient with acute psychosis and COVID-19 and later virus reactivation
title_short Time for lessons from the first wave of SARS-CoV-2 epidemic. A case report of a patient with acute psychosis and COVID-19 and later virus reactivation
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