Smaller Pituitary Volumes in Patients with Delusional Disorder
| Autor: | Murad Atmaca, Sevda Korkmaz, Mehmet Gurkan Gurok, Hanefi Yildirim, Denizhan Danaci Keles, Mehmet Kilic |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Pituitary gland smaller 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Internal medicine Healthy control medicine Humans In patient Original Paper Schizophrenia Paranoid business.industry Delusional disorder General Medicine Organ Size delusional disorder medicine.disease Magnetic Resonance Imaging 030227 psychiatry medicine.anatomical_structure Pituitary volumes Case-Control Studies Pituitary Gland Female business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Medical Archives |
| ISSN: | 1986-5961 |
| Popis: | Introduction: Delusional disorder shares some clinical characteristics of OCD and hypochondriasis. Delusions compared to obsessions in the OCD and compared to bodily preoccupations in the hypochondriasis are more established beliefs. Aim: To measure pituitary volumes in patients with delusional disorder and hypothesized that volumes would be reduced in those patients by a mechanism that we could not account for before for patients with OCD and hypochondriasis. Methods: Eighteen patients with delusional disorder and healthy controls were included into the study. Pituitary gland volumes were measured. Results: When using independent t test, the mean total pituitary volume was 777.22±241.28 mm3 in healthy controls, while it was 532.11±125.65 mm3 in patients with delusional disorder. The differences in regard to pituitary gland volumes between patients with delusional disorder and healthy control subjects were statistically meaningful (p |
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