A case from the library
Odd beliefs and agitation in a 44-year-old woman
PsychiatryMedium
Patricia Gomez
44 years · Female
Vitals
- Heart rate
- 92 bpm
- Blood pressure
- 132/80 mmHg
- Resp. rate
- 16 /min
- SpO₂
- 98%
- Temperature
- 98.6 °F
How hard it is
A real-world presentation with one or two atypical features. You'll need targeted questions and the right test to narrow the differential.
The diagnosis is not shown here. Finding it is the case.
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Source
Adapted from a case report published in Case Reports in Psychiatry, under the CC BY 4.0 license. The patient's name and some details are invented; the clinical picture follows the report. The report names the diagnosis.
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