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Postoperative conversion disorder
Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, 2016Conversion disorder is a psychiatric disorder in which psychological stress causes neurologic deficits. A 28-year-old female surgical patient had uneventful general anesthesia and emergence but developed conversion disorder 1 hour postoperatively. She reported difficulty speaking, right-hand numbness and weakness, and right-leg paralysis.
Kola Afolabi +5 more
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Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 1995
Fifty four consecutive subjects diagnosed as Hysteria (300.1 according to ICD‐9), were taken up for study, to examine the usefulness and validity of Lazare's criteria and explore its clinical utility in diagnosing conversion disorders. Lazare's validation score was computed for each subject, and the specificity, sensitivity, positive predictive ...
P, Sharma, S K, Chaturvedi
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Fifty four consecutive subjects diagnosed as Hysteria (300.1 according to ICD‐9), were taken up for study, to examine the usefulness and validity of Lazare's criteria and explore its clinical utility in diagnosing conversion disorders. Lazare's validation score was computed for each subject, and the specificity, sensitivity, positive predictive ...
P, Sharma, S K, Chaturvedi
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Conversion disorders: An overview
Psychosomatics, 1985Abstract Despite a rich medical history, conversion disorders remain an elusive clinical phenomenon. Theoretical formulations have often taken precedence over empiric data. This review suggests that, with the exception of demonstrable nonpsysiologic findings, no other clinical or historical information provides other than “soft” data to support a ...
C V, Ford, D G, Folks
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[Conversion disorder in the elderly].
Psychologie & neuropsychiatrie du vieillissement, 2007The dismemberment of the concept of neurosis, particularly of hysteria, in the current classifications (DSM-III and following, ICD-10) has led the authors to consider the concept of somatisation and the various situations included in it. Somatic disorders as the manifestation of a mental disorder, often of a depressive or anxious nature, bring back to ...
Dibie-Racoupeau, Florence +4 more
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Conversion Disorders is a memoir exploring the impact of a debilitating illness on the narrator's conceptions of self. The novel traces the narrator, a lawyer in the U.S. Army, from Iraq to Hawaii to New York, as she suffers from a constellation of physical and cognitive symptoms with no apparent medical cause.
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Hyperemesis Gravidarum as Conversion Disorder
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1990Psychosocial factors have long been believed to be important in the pathogenesis of emesis gravidarum (morning sickness) and hyperemesis gravidarum (HG). Although this has been confirmed during extensive studies over the last 30 years, HG has never been described as a conversion reaction.
R S, el-Mallakh +2 more
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Bypassing Shame and Conversion Disorder
CNS Spectrums, 2010AbstractWe report a case of conversion disorder (partial aphonia) that was successfully treated with speech therapy. During the one year duration of this illness, the patient regained transiently (minutes) her normal speech on a few occasions, independently of concomitant pharmacological interventions.
Robert G, Bota +2 more
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Archives of Internal Medicine, 1990
• We present two cases of serious central nervous system disease initially misdiagnosed as conversion disorder. In each instance, multiple medical evaluations did not uncover the underlying neurologic disorder. Skepticism on the part of psychiatric evaluators led to eventual diagnosis.
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• We present two cases of serious central nervous system disease initially misdiagnosed as conversion disorder. In each instance, multiple medical evaluations did not uncover the underlying neurologic disorder. Skepticism on the part of psychiatric evaluators led to eventual diagnosis.
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