Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Case Report: Psychosis in an adolescent with sickle cell disease. | Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health Case Report BioMed Central Open Access Case Report Psychosis in an adolescent with sickle cell disease Muideen Owolabi Bakare Address Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital New Haven Enugu Enugu State Nigeria Email Muideen Owolabi Bakare - mobakare2000@ Corresponding author Published 17 July 2007 Received 1 March 2007 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2007 1 6 doi 1753-2000-1-6 Accepted 17 July 2007 This article is available from http content 1 1 6 2007 Bakare licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Anxiety and depression are well documented complications of adjustment in sickle cell disease SCD but psychosis as a direct complication of or adjustment in SCD is uncommon. This article reports a case of psychosis in an adolescent with SCD. It advocates for further study on the relationship between psychosis and brain tissue silent-infarcts in these patients and the urge for alertness on the part of health care professionals regarding a holistic approach to the management of these children and adolescents with SCD. Case presentation Reasons for evaluation a seventeen year old male adolescent presented at the psychiatric outpatient facility of Federal Psychiatric Hospital Calabar Nigeria with a second episode of mental illness. He is a known sickle cell disease SCD patient with Hemoglobin genotype from South-south region of Nigeria. He was single and of Christian faith. He had just completed his high school education. He was brought by the father and an elder sister to the psychiatric out-patient facility on account of being talkative verbal and physical aggression poor sleep accusing house help of witchcraft .
