Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis fatal case was mistaken as a debut of schizophrenia: the devil is in the psychopathological details
- Authors: Mendelevich V.D.1, Sergienko K.S.1, Yakhin K.K.1, Abdullina E.A.2
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Affiliations:
- Kazan State Medical University
- Republican Clinical Psychiatric Hospital named after. V.M. Bekhtereva
- Issue: Vol LVI, No 3 (2024)
- Pages: 299-310
- Section: Clinical case reports
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/1027-4898/article/view/270333
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/nb633510
- ID: 270333
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Abstract
The article presents the clinical case of the patient Victor, 42 years old, who was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in an acute psychotic state with schizophreniform symptoms. His illness progressed rapidly, and at different stages, epileptic paroxysms and disorders of consciousness joined the symptoms typical of schizophrenia. It was then that the question arose of the need to revise the diagnosis of schizophrenia, to carry out a targeted neurological examination and to correct of the treatment regimen. Victor’s case, which ended in death, raises questions for psychiatrists about finding significant differential diagnostic criteria for distinguishing schizophrenia from schizophrenia-like psychoses. To avoid mistakes, it is proposed to rely on the so-called. “diagnostic clues” and “red flags” in identifying the psychopathology of anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis.
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Vladimir D. Mendelevich
Kazan State Medical University
Author for correspondence.
Email: mendelevich_vl@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8476-6083
SPIN-code: 2302-2590
MD, Dr. Sci. (Med.), Prof., Head of Depart.
Russian Federation, KazanKonstantin S. Sergienko
Kazan State Medical University
Email: kostya_s99@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2942-6174
resident of Psychiatry department
Russian Federation, KazanKausar K. Yakhin
Kazan State Medical University
Email: yakhin@bk.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5958-5355
SPIN-code: 6275-6051
MD, Dr. Sci. (Med.), Prof., Psychiatry Depart.
Russian Federation, KazanElvira A. Abdullina
Republican Clinical Psychiatric Hospital named after. V.M. Bekhtereva
Email: abdullinaelvi@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0000-3639-1806
MD, Head of Depart.
Russian Federation, KazanReferences
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