DELUSION OF HAVING ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS): REPORT OF TWO CASES

This is a report of (wo cases of monosymptomatic hypochondriacal psychosis who were convinced of having acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. They bitterly criticised the incompetence of their medical advisers, on of always showed virus-like particles of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome organisms be...

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Main Author: 5. Shamsadini M.T. Yasami
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 1999-06-01
Series:Acta Medica Iranica
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Online Access:https://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/view/1785
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spelling doaj-5e13dce1217b4bc5ba5e05b9218c1cbc2020-11-25T03:21:42ZengTehran University of Medical SciencesActa Medica Iranica0044-60251735-96941999-06-01372DELUSION OF HAVING ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS): REPORT OF TWO CASES 5. Shamsadini M.T. Yasami0 This is a report of (wo cases of monosymptomatic hypochondriacal psychosis who were convinced of having acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. They bitterly criticised the incompetence of their medical advisers, on of always showed virus-like particles of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome organisms beneath their lip mucosa or penile skin. Vie first case was advised to continue psychofytic compounds. Favorable results were obtained following a 5 months period. In the second case, amitryptiline and trifluoperazine were prescribed with comparatively good results. https://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/view/1785delusionparasitophobia
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DELUSION OF HAVING ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS): REPORT OF TWO CASES
Acta Medica Iranica
delusion
parasitophobia
author_facet 5. Shamsadini M.T. Yasami
author_sort 5. Shamsadini M.T. Yasami
title DELUSION OF HAVING ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS): REPORT OF TWO CASES
title_short DELUSION OF HAVING ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS): REPORT OF TWO CASES
title_full DELUSION OF HAVING ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS): REPORT OF TWO CASES
title_fullStr DELUSION OF HAVING ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS): REPORT OF TWO CASES
title_full_unstemmed DELUSION OF HAVING ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS): REPORT OF TWO CASES
title_sort delusion of having acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids): report of two cases
publisher Tehran University of Medical Sciences
series Acta Medica Iranica
issn 0044-6025
1735-9694
publishDate 1999-06-01
description This is a report of (wo cases of monosymptomatic hypochondriacal psychosis who were convinced of having acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. They bitterly criticised the incompetence of their medical advisers, on of always showed virus-like particles of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome organisms beneath their lip mucosa or penile skin. Vie first case was advised to continue psychofytic compounds. Favorable results were obtained following a 5 months period. In the second case, amitryptiline and trifluoperazine were prescribed with comparatively good results.
topic delusion
parasitophobia
url https://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/view/1785
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