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Case Report: Psychosis in an adolescent with sickle cell disease

Author: Muideen Owolabi Bakare

Published in: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health | Issue 1/2007

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.

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Title: Case Report: Psychosis in an adolescent with sickle cell disease
Author: Muideen Owolabi Bakare
Publication date: 01-12-2007
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health / Issue 1/2007
Electronic ISSN: 1753-2000
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1753-2000-1-6

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