Psychosis After Infection With SARS-CoV-2 in an Adolescent: A Case Report

As many as one-third of patients who have coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) develop long-term neuropsychiatric symptoms, such as anxiety, depression, brain fog, psychosis, seizures, and suicidal behavior.(1) Several case reports have demonstrated the association between psychotic symptoms followin...

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Autores principales: Thomas, Reena, Hernandez, Michael J., Thomas, Roy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2022
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8904030/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35278631
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2022.03.004
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description As many as one-third of patients who have coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) develop long-term neuropsychiatric symptoms, such as anxiety, depression, brain fog, psychosis, seizures, and suicidal behavior.(1) Several case reports have demonstrated the association between psychotic symptoms following infection with COVID-19 in adults.(1,2) In a first episode of psychosis, clinical findings on history, examination, and diagnostic studies may suggest that the psychotic symptoms are due to medical illness, which may be reversible. The presentation can include acute onset, predominance of visual or tactile hallucinations, and association with other neurological symptoms.(3)
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spelling pubmed-89040302022-03-09 Psychosis After Infection With SARS-CoV-2 in an Adolescent: A Case Report Thomas, Reena Hernandez, Michael J. Thomas, Roy J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry Letter to the Editor As many as one-third of patients who have coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) develop long-term neuropsychiatric symptoms, such as anxiety, depression, brain fog, psychosis, seizures, and suicidal behavior.(1) Several case reports have demonstrated the association between psychotic symptoms following infection with COVID-19 in adults.(1,2) In a first episode of psychosis, clinical findings on history, examination, and diagnostic studies may suggest that the psychotic symptoms are due to medical illness, which may be reversible. The presentation can include acute onset, predominance of visual or tactile hallucinations, and association with other neurological symptoms.(3) American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2022-07 2022-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8904030/ /pubmed/35278631 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2022.03.004 Text en ©2022 American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 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_short Psychosis After Infection With SARS-CoV-2 in an Adolescent: A Case Report
title_sort psychosis after infection with sars-cov-2 in an adolescent: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8904030/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35278631
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2022.03.004
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