Delayed-onset post-stroke delusional disorder: A case report

作者：Barboza Raissa B; De Freitas Gabriel R; Tovar Moll Fernanda; Fontenelle Leonardo F^*

来源：Behavioural Neurology, 2013, 27(3): 287-291.

DOI：10.3233/BEN-120315

• Stroke
• psychotic symptoms
• persistent delusional disorder

Although the prevalence of neuropsychiatric disorders among patients with cerebrovascular illness is relatively high, there are only few case reports describing post-stroke psychotic symptoms. In general, post-stroke psychoses have been reported to emerge few days after the vascular event and to vanish soon afterwards. In this report, we describe delayed-onset post-stroke delusional disorder, persecutory type. A middle-aged female patient developed a persistent delusional disorder with homicidal behavior about one year after a cerebrovascular accident affecting the right fronto-temporo-parietal region and a long period of chronic post-stroke mixed anxiety and depressive symptoms. Our case suggests that there might be long intervals between stroke and the appearance of psychotic symptoms.

• 出版日期2013