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A Case of Bipolar Affective Disorder and Aspiration Pneumonia

Author(s) -

Alessandro Gerada,

Gaetano Dell'Erba

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

case reports in psychiatry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.17

H-Index - 4

eISSN - 2090-682X

pISSN - 2090-6838

DOI - 10.1155/2013/360348

Subject(s) - medicine , bipolar disorder , psychogenic disease , aspiration pneumonia , pneumonia , comorbidity , mania , psychiatry , polydipsia , population , diabetes insipidus , pediatrics , diabetes mellitus , intensive care medicine , mood , environmental health , endocrinology

Adults with mental illness are at a higher risk of aspiration pneumonia than the general population. We describe the case of a patient with bipolar affective disorder and two separate episodes of aspiration pneumonia associated with acute mania. We propose that he had multiple predisposing factors, including hyperverbosity, sedative medications, polydipsia (psychogenic and secondary to a comorbidity of diabetes insipidus), and neuroleptic side effects.

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