Case Report of A Young Girl with Persistent Hyperplastic Primary Vitreous and Psychosis
- Author:
Wong Daniel Teck Lung
1
Author Information
1. Department of Psychiatry, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre (UKMMC), Jalan Yaacob Latif, Bandar Tun Razak, 56000 Cheras, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.
- Collective Name:Daniel Wong Teck Lung; Ruziana Masiran; Wan Salwina Wan Ismail
- Publication Type:Case Reports
- Keywords:
Schizophrenia;
Psychotic disorders;
Blindness;
Child psychiatry
- MeSH:
Child psychiatry
- From:Malaysian Journal of Medicine and Health Sciences
2019;15(2):160-162
- CountryMalaysia
- Language:English
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Abstract:
Childhood- and adolescent-onset schizophrenia are rare. Along with positive, negative, affective and cognitive symptoms, eye-tracking dysfunction characterized by a disturbance in the smooth pursuit system has been the only associated visual impairment found in schizophrenia. This case report highlights a case of a child with persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous who had gradual onset of psychosis over two years duration. A final diagnosis of schizophrenia was considered and she was started on antipsychotics, to which she showed gradual response with mild extrapyramidal side effects
- Full text:11.2019my0421.pdf
