Open AccessComplex visual hallucinatory experience in an elderly blind woman with glaucoma: revisiting Charles Bonnet syndrome
Author(s) -
Nyundo Azan A.,
Mwombeki Innocent R.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
clinical case reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 9
ISSN - 2050-0904
DOI - 10.1002/ccr3.1482
Subject(s) - charles bonnet syndrome , visual hallucination , medicine , haloperidol , glaucoma , ophthalmology , visual disturbance , psychiatry , audiology , surgery , dopamine
Key Clinical Message 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.