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8644096

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-7-18
pubmed:abstractText
Psychic distress is often expressed in the form of physical pain or disease, but the converse also occurs. Illnesses with an organic aetiology are sometimes misdiagnosed as psychogenic. We describe three patients who developed rare forms of acute drug-induced dystonia when treated with antipsychotic drugs. All three cases were initially misdiagnosed as "hysteria" because the patients had psychiatric illnesses and because the symptoms were bizarre and became worse when the patients became very anxious. Furthermore, if the patients were helped to relax the symptoms disappeared for a moment. One of the patients developed dystonia 24 hours after ingestion of 750 mg tetrabenazine in an attempt at suicide. Another patient who had HIV/AIDS developed severe dystonia after receiving only 2 mg haloperidol by mouth. The clinical presentation, treatment, and possible mechanisms of the pathophysiology of acute drug-induced dystonia are briefly reviewed.
pubmed:language
nor
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0029-2001
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
10
pubmed:volume
116
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
844-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-7-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
[Drug-induced dystonia misinterpreted as hysteria].
pubmed:affiliation
Klinikk for psykiatri, Ullevål sykehus.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract, Case Reports