[Visual hallucinations and giant cell arteritis: the Charles Bonnet syndrome].

Autor: Bloch J; Service de médecine interne, hôpital Huriez, CHRU de Lille, Lille cedex, France., Morell-Dubois S, Koch E, Launay D, Maillard-Lefebvre H, Buchdahl AL, Hachulla E, Rouland JF, Hatron PY, Lambert M
Jazyk: francouzština
Zdroj: La Revue de medecine interne [Rev Med Interne] 2011 Dec; Vol. 32 (12), pp. e119-21. Date of Electronic Publication: 2011 Jan 26.
DOI: 10.1016/j.revmed.2010.12.014
Abstrakt: In patients with visual hallucinations, diagnostic strategy is unclearly codified. In patients known to have giant cell arteritis, the main diagnostic assumption is disease relapse. Indeed, this should lead to rapid corticosteroid therapy. However, the Charles Bonnet syndrome, that is a poorly known etiology of visual hallucinations usually observed in elderly people, should be part of the differential diagnosis. We report a 87-year-old woman, with a 2-year history of giant cell arteritis who was admitted with an acute onset of visual hallucinations and who met all the criteria for Charles Bonnet syndrome.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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