Psychiatric symptoms are present in most of the patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus
Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) is characterized by gait disturbance, dementia and/or urinary incontinence associated with dilation of ventricular system with normal opening cerebrospinal fluid pressure. Wide scientifical evidence confirms association between NPH and psychiatric symptoms. We sel...
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| author | Matheus F. Oliveira João R. M. Oliveira José M. Rotta Fernando C. G. Pinto |
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| description | Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) is characterized by gait disturbance, dementia and/or urinary incontinence associated with dilation of ventricular system with normal opening cerebrospinal fluid pressure. Wide scientifical evidence confirms association between NPH and psychiatric symptoms. We selected 35 patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus from January 2010 to January 2012 in a Brazilian tertiary hospital and performed a formal psychiatric evaluation to identify psychiatric disorders. Psychiatric disorders were present in 71% of these patients, especially anxiety, depression and psychotic syndromes. NPH patients may develop symptoms with frontal dominance, such as personality changes, anxiety, depression, psychotic syndromes, obsessive compulsive disorder, Othello syndrome; shoplifting and mania. Unusual appearances of NPH symptoms may hinder early diagnosis and consequently proper treatment. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-044ba474db1f40aebb60efdd3c441b962025-08-20T01:58:55ZengThieme Revinter PublicaçõesArquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria1678-42272014-06-0172643543810.1590/0004-282X20140047S0004-282X2014000600435Psychiatric symptoms are present in most of the patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalusMatheus F. OliveiraJoão R. M. OliveiraJosé M. RottaFernando C. G. PintoNormal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) is characterized by gait disturbance, dementia and/or urinary incontinence associated with dilation of ventricular system with normal opening cerebrospinal fluid pressure. Wide scientifical evidence confirms association between NPH and psychiatric symptoms. We selected 35 patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus from January 2010 to January 2012 in a Brazilian tertiary hospital and performed a formal psychiatric evaluation to identify psychiatric disorders. Psychiatric disorders were present in 71% of these patients, especially anxiety, depression and psychotic syndromes. NPH patients may develop symptoms with frontal dominance, such as personality changes, anxiety, depression, psychotic syndromes, obsessive compulsive disorder, Othello syndrome; shoplifting and mania. Unusual appearances of NPH symptoms may hinder early diagnosis and consequently proper treatment.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2014000600435&lng=en&tlng=enhidrocefalia de pressão normalsintomaspsiquiatria |
| spellingShingle | Matheus F. Oliveira João R. M. Oliveira José M. Rotta Fernando C. G. Pinto Psychiatric symptoms are present in most of the patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria hidrocefalia de pressão normal sintomas psiquiatria |
| title | Psychiatric symptoms are present in most of the patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus |
| title_full | Psychiatric symptoms are present in most of the patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus |
| title_fullStr | Psychiatric symptoms are present in most of the patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus |
| title_full_unstemmed | Psychiatric symptoms are present in most of the patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus |
| title_short | Psychiatric symptoms are present in most of the patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus |
| title_sort | psychiatric symptoms are present in most of the patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus |
| topic | hidrocefalia de pressão normal sintomas psiquiatria |
| url | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2014000600435&lng=en&tlng=en |
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