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eISSN: 2581-9615 || CODEN: WJARAI || Impact Factor 8.2 ||  CrossRef DOI

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Atypical psychosis in a person living with HIV: A case report

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Alejandro Checa * and Eliana Navas

Eugenio Espejo Specialties Hospital, Mental Health Unit, Quito, Ecuador.
 
Case Study
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2023, 18(02), 903-905
Article DOI: 10.30574/wjarr.2023.18.2.0939
DOI url: https://doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2023.18.2.0939
 
Received on 11 April 2023; revised on 17 May 2023; accepted on 19 May 2023
 
Introduction: An organic disorder is defined as psychiatric syndromes, the fundamental manifestations of which are the direct consequence of a known anatomophysiological alteration of the brain. HIV is a neurotropic virus, which infects the central nervous system early. Despite the widely known high prevalence of HIV-related brain atrophy, the presence of psychotic symptoms is rare.
Case report: This is a 28-year-old patient with a recent diagnosis of HIV with Western Blot in 2017, his diagnosis was made in a mental health center due to psychotic symptoms, an imaging study with simple tomography of the brain was performed with the result of frontal atrophy and occipital, in a young adult patient with no history of head trauma, hemorrhagic or ischemic events, as well as; Central nervous system infections are ruled out.
Conclusions: This is a disorder with chronic psychotic symptoms in a patient with cortical atrophy secondary to HIV infection.
 
Psychosis; Atypical; HIV; Brain atrophy
 
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Alejandro Checa and Eliana Navas. Atypical psychosis in a person living with HIV: A case report. World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2023, 18(2), 903-905 . Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2023.18.2.0939

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