Complex visual hallucinatory experience in an elderly blind woman with glaucoma: revisiting Charles Bonnet syndrome
For fear of being ridiculed, individuals with visual hallucinations hide their experiences and thus remain unrecognized and miss treatment. An elderly blind woman secondary to glaucoma experienced visual hallucinations accompanied by gross behavior disturbances. She improved with sodium valproate af...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Clinical case reports 2018, Vol.6 (5), p.859-862 |
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| Format: | Report |
| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | For fear of being ridiculed, individuals with visual hallucinations hide their experiences and thus remain unrecognized and miss treatment. An elderly blind woman secondary to glaucoma experienced visual hallucinations accompanied by gross behavior disturbances. She improved with sodium valproate after haloperidol failed and remained relatively improved upon 3 months follow-up. |
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| ISSN: | 2050-0904 2050-0904 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/ccr3.1482 |