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Pitfalls and Pearls in Delusional Parasitosis [PDF]
Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, 2019 Delusional parasitosis is an uncommon psychiatric disorder that manifests as having parasitic delusions. Due to its rarity, delusional parasitosis is a challenging and costly diagnosis of exclusion and proves difficult to manage for many providers ...
Allen Gold, Zhanna Roit, Ingrid Llovera
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Delusional parasitosis: A case series
Industrial Psychiatry Journal, 2023 Delusional parasitosis (DP) is an infrequent psychotic illness, where the patient has a false but firm belief that his body is infested with parasites. It can be primary or secondary.
Akanksha Gajbhiye +6 more
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Ekbom Syndrome: A Case Report [PDF]
Revista Portuguesa de Psiquiatria e Saúde Mental, 2020 Delusional parasitosis, also known as delusional infestation or Ekbom syndrome, is a somatic type of delusional disorder, usually mono‑symptomatic, in which patients are convinced they are being infested with animal parasites while no objective evidence ...
Ana Teresa Pereira +4 more
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Delusional parasitosis in dementia with Lewy bodies: a case report [PDF]
Annals of General Psychiatry, 2019 Background Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is characterized by fluctuating cognitive impairments, recurrent visual hallucinations, the motor symptoms of parkinsonism and REM sleep behavior disorder.
Sho Ochiai +7 more
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A case report of delusional parasitosis by proxy: a rare entity [PDF]
BMC PsychiatryBackground Delusional parasitosis is a rare, fixed, false belief that an individual is infested with parasites or other living organisms despite no laboratory evidence to confirm this belief. It can manifest as a shared belief, folie à deux, or by proxy.
Caroline Chivily, Brianna Glover
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Exploring delusional parasitosis – a case series of three patients [PDF]
Asian Journal of Medical SciencesDelusional parasitosis is a psychiatric condition where individuals believe they are infested with parasites despite lacking medical evidence. This often leads to underestimation within psychiatric settings.
Abhishek Pathak +4 more
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A Gut Feeling: Delusional Parasitosis [PDF]
BJPsych OpenAims: Delusional parasitosis, first described by Karl Ekbom in the 1930s, is a rare psychiatric disorder characterised by a persistent, false belief of parasitic infestation. The condition is typically classified into three categories: primary, secondary
Chris Joseph, Mario Lepore
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Delusional Infestation: Perspectives from Scottish Dermatologists and a 10-year Case Series from a Single Centre [PDF]
Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 2018 Perceptions of the clinical management of delusional infestation (DI) were compared with clinical outcomes in this 10-year case series from a single centre in Dundee, UK.
Yee Ling Wong +2 more
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Delusional parasitosis: Report on response to olanzapine in a case series of 04 patients
Industrial Psychiatry Journal, 2023 Delusional parasitosis (DP) is a type of delusional disorder which is characterised by single hypochondriacal delusion in which patient believes that he/she is infested with insects/worms/parasite.
Mohit Agrawal +2 more
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Delusional parasitosis on the psychiatric consultation service – a longitudinal perspective: Case study [PDF]
BJPsych Open, 2017 Background Delusional parasitosis is infrequently seen in hospital-based consultation–liaison psychiatry. Aims Although there are many publications on ...
Adam Trenton +4 more
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