Catatonia as an internal medicine disease: infrequent or still underdiagnosed?. (22nd April 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Proenca, Margarida; Marques, Filipa; Cardoso, Débora; Fonseca, Cândida
• Is Part Of: BMJ case reports. Volume 2016
• Publication Date: 2016-04-22
• Subjects: Medicine -- Case studies -- Periodicals; 610.5
• DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2015-214233
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1757-790X

Abstract

Abstract : Catatonia is a motor and behavioural syndrome with multiple psychiatric, general medical and neurological aetiologies that might be simultaneously present. B12 deficiency is a rare, treatable cause of catatonia, not always easy to rule out. The authors present a case of a woman with catatonia associated with severe cyanocobalamin deficiency, admitted to an internal medicine ward. The benign course was related to an adequate and early diagnosis.