Atypical psychosis in a person living with HIV: A case report

Abstract

Introduction: An organic disorder is defined as psychiatric syndromes, the fundamental manifestations of which are the direct consequence of a known anatomophysiological alteration of the brain. HIV is a neurotropic virus, which infects the central nervous system early. Despite the widely known high prevalence of HIV-related brain atrophy, the presence of psychotic symptoms is rare. Case report: This is a 28-year-old patient with a recent diagnosis of HIV with Western Blot in 2017, his diagnosis was made in a mental health center due to psychotic symptoms, an imaging study with simple tomography of the brain was performed with the result of frontal atrophy and occipital, in a young adult patient with no history of head trauma, hemorrhagic or ischemic events, as well as; Central nervous system infections are ruled out. Conclusions: This is a disorder with chronic psychotic symptoms in a patient with cortical atrophy secondary to HIV infection.