Open AccessMultiple-etiology delirium and catatonia in an alcoholic with tubercular meningoencephalitis
Author(s) -
Suneet Kumar Upadhyaya,
Monika Pathania,
Archana Sharma
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal/industrial psychiatry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2795
pISSN - 0972-6748
DOI - 10.4103/0972-6748.102528
Subject(s) - etiology , delirium , catatonia , meningoencephalitis , medicine , psychiatry , intensive care medicine , pediatrics , psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , virology
Delirium is a clinical entity with a variety of possible etiological conditions. Clinicians must be vigilant for the possibility of additional etiological factors. Secondly, catatonic patients should be carefully looked for general medical conditions. This case report depicts a chronic alcoholic who presented with withdrawal delirium, later on developed catatonia and then was diagnosed to have tubercular meningoencephalitis, a rare clinical sequence.