Successful treatment with olanzapine in severe hallucinatory-paranoid state during the course of treatment of inflammatory demyelination disease: a case report
Abstract:Inflammatory demyelination diseases (IDDs) frequently cause various psychiatric symptoms such as depression, but psychosis is uncommon. The patient was a 23-year-old man treated for IDDs with a steroid for 8 years. Somnolence, right femoral pain, dysuria, and walking difficulty had been observed, and these symptoms recovered after several rounds of steroid pulse therapy. He experienced severe psychotic symptoms, such as visual and auditory hallucinations and xenopathic experiences, even though the steroid dose… Show more
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