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Psychiatry and organicity interface: A case series
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DMHP, North District Hospital, Mapusa, Goa
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Institute of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Bambolim, Goa
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Hospicio Hospital, Margao, Goa
Submission date: 2018-07-10
Final revision date: 2019-01-14
Acceptance date: 2019-02-23
Online publication date: 2019-09-07
Publication date: 2019-09-07
Arch Psych Psych 2019;21(3):53–56
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An agitated or suicidal patient brought by family or authorities at the A & E can be called as a prototypical psychiatric emergency. These individuals present with myriad of psychiatric symptoms which may have underlying organic etiologies and co-morbidities; final diagnosis should always be made after exclusion of such causes. At presentation identifying underlying medical condition masquerading as a psychiatric disorder can be difficult and challenging in such scenarios. We hereby present three cases where patients were admitted to a tertiary care set up with probable primary psychiatric syndromes; upon investigations were found to have medical co-morbidities ; which had pivotal implication on their management.
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