Abstract

BARRIGUETE HERNANDEZ, Jacqueline. Diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties in a late start psychotic disorder. A case report. Salud Ment [online]. 2011, vol.34, n.2, pp.175-179. ISSN 0185-3325.

This is the report of a case of a patient who presented her first psychotic episode at the age of 48 years old with a predominance of delusional symptoms but with a torpid and severe family and social dysfunction meriting psychiatric hospitalization for 83 days because of her difficult treatment and a considerable multiple pharmacological schemes that interfere on the diagnosis and prognosis; the importance of the approach and the differential diagnosis that has to be taken into account to the variety of psychotic symptoms that are part of the diagnosis of schizophrenia, but they certainly are not pathognomonic of it.

Keywords : Delusions; schizophrenia; diagnostic; therapeutic.