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Willis–Ekbom Disease or Restless Legs Syndrome?

open access: yesSleep Medicine, 2015
Contexto. A Síndrome das Pernas Inquietas (SPI) ou Doença de Willis-Ekbom (DWE) é bastante prevalente e ainda pouco conhecida entre pacientes e profissionais da saúde, havendo controvérsias quanto a melhor forma de se designar essa entidade nosológica ...
Karla Carlos   +2 more
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Management Strategies for Restless Legs Syndrome/Willis-Ekbom Disease During Pregnancy

open access: yesSleep Medicine Clinics, 2018
Restless legs syndrome/Willis-Ekbom disease is a common disorder during pregnancy that may significantly impact on the health of affected women, leading to negative consequences in the short and long term.
Mauro Manconi, Corrado Garbazza
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Historical and clinical considerations on Ekbom’s syndrome

International Review of Psychiatry, 2020
Ekbom's syndrome represents a relatively uncommon neuropsychiatric condition characterized by the recurrent and bizarre fixed delusional belief to be infested by small organisms or even unanimated materials ('Morgellons disease'), without any objective evidence of infestation/parasitosis.
Umberto Volpe, Laura Orsolini
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Restless Legs Syndrome/Willis-Ekbom Disease and Pregnancy

open access: yesSleep Medicine Clinics, 2015
Restless legs syndrome (RLS)/Willis-Ekbom disease is 3-fold more prevalent in pregnant than in non-pregnant women. Symptoms are particularly strong and frequent during the third trimester of pregnancy and disappear around delivery. A pre-existing form of
Mauro Manconi
exaly   +2 more sources

Coexistence of the Ekbom Syndrome and Lilliputian Hallucination

Psychopathology, 2010
A patient who showed Ekbom’s syndrome, i.e. delusions of parasitosis, and also lilliputian hallucination is described. She was diagnosed as senile dementia based on the diagnostic criteria of DSM-III-R and cerebral imaging techniques. When she was 74 years, she felt a mowworm-like wriggle in her stomach and their travels all over her body. When she was
A, Kanazawa, T, Hata
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Co-existence of the Capgras and Ekbom Syndromes

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1984
SummaryA case is described in which a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia was made using the criteria of Schneiderian first-rank symptoms. The patient showed the Capgras syndrome, with delusional misidentification of her son and other people in her environment, and also Ekbom's syndrome, with the delusion that she was infested with parasitic worms ...
J A, McLaughlin, A, Sims
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An Epoch of Ekbom’s Syndrome

CNS Spectrums
IntroductionDelusional parasitosis, yclept Ekbom’s Syndrome, was originally described in 1938 and has an incidence of up to 4.2 per 100,000 people (Olivera, 2017; Orsolini, 2020). While the average duration of this delusion is three years, it can last decades (Al-Imam, 2019).
Camryn F. Hirsch, Patricia M. Bonilla
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