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Abstract #77062 Published in IGR 19-3

Complex visual hallucinatory experience in an elderly blind woman with glaucoma: revisiting Charles Bonnet syndrome

Nyundo AA; Mwombeki IR
Clinical case reports 2018; 6: 859-862


For fear of being ridiculed, individuals with visual hallucinations hide their experiences and thus remain unrecognized and miss treatment. An elderly blind woman secondary to glaucoma experienced visual hallucinations accompanied by gross behavior disturbances. She improved with sodium valproate after haloperidol failed and remained relatively improved upon 3 months follow-up.

Division of Psychiatry Department of Internal Medicine School of Medicine The University of Dodoma Dodoma Tanzania.

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Classification:

9.4.15 Glaucoma in relation to systemic disease (Part of: 9 Clinical forms of glaucomas > 9.4 Glaucomas associated with other ocular and systemic disorders)



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