Delusional Infestation: A case of Ekbom syndrome in an elderly woman with a long history of HIV

A 70‐year‐old female presented with a long history of HIV and 5 years of disturbing delusions of infestation that impaired her daily functioning. The delusions resolved with haloperidol but were followed by depressive symptoms. The case presents the complexity of managing neuropsychiatric manifestat...

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Autores principales: Mandari, Sadiki, Aslan, Suluma, Deodatus, Shani, Nyundo, Azan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9994137/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36911646
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.7044
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author Mandari, Sadiki
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description A 70‐year‐old female presented with a long history of HIV and 5 years of disturbing delusions of infestation that impaired her daily functioning. The delusions resolved with haloperidol but were followed by depressive symptoms. The case presents the complexity of managing neuropsychiatric manifestations of HIV/AIDS with comorbidities in old age.
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spelling pubmed-99941372023-03-09 Delusional Infestation: A case of Ekbom syndrome in an elderly woman with a long history of HIV Mandari, Sadiki Aslan, Suluma Deodatus, Shani Nyundo, Azan Clin Case Rep Case Report A 70‐year‐old female presented with a long history of HIV and 5 years of disturbing delusions of infestation that impaired her daily functioning. The delusions resolved with haloperidol but were followed by depressive symptoms. The case presents the complexity of managing neuropsychiatric manifestations of HIV/AIDS with comorbidities in old age. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023-03-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9994137/ /pubmed/36911646 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.7044 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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Delusional Infestation: A case of Ekbom syndrome in an elderly woman with a long history of HIV
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title_fullStr Delusional Infestation: A case of Ekbom syndrome in an elderly woman with a long history of HIV
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title_short Delusional Infestation: A case of Ekbom syndrome in an elderly woman with a long history of HIV
title_sort delusional infestation: a case of ekbom syndrome in an elderly woman with a long history of hiv
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9994137/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.7044
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