Secondary mania in an elderly patient during SARS-COV-2 infection with complete remission: a 1-year follow-up
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Jiménez Fernández, SaraEditorial
Medicinska naklada
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2021Referencia bibliográfica
Jiménez, S... [et al.] (2021). Secondary mania in an elderly patient during SARS-COV-2 infection with complete remission: a 1-year follow-up. Psychiatria Danubina, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp 418-420 [https://doi.org/10.24869/psyd.2021.418]
Resumen
The new Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus
2 (SARS-CoV-2) appeared in Wuhan (capital
city of Hubei Province, China) in December 2019,
resulting in an international public health emergency by
the end of January 2020 according to The World Health
Organization (WHO). The clinical presentation of the
new disease consisted of severe respiratory syndrome
secondary to acute lung damage. It was also found that
other organs were invaded by the new coronavirus.
The most typical symptoms in previous coronavirusses
were confusion, insomnia, depression and anxiety.
Mania and psychosis appeared in low percentages, but
subthreshold symptoms were found with more frequency
(Rogers et al. 2020). Described cases of mania
and psychosis have shown a complete recovery after the
infection without the development of chronic mental
illness (Noone et al. 2020, Tuna et al. 2020). However,
psychiatric consequences of the infection are multifactorial,
and existing literature could have serious limitations
in observational studies, due to the size of the
sample or the short follow-up time (Rogers et al. 2020).
Here we present the case of a patient with a possible
atypical presentation of SARS-CoV-2 infection with
affective mania symptoms. In the present description of
the case, data that allowed the identification of the
patient was omitted to guarantee privacy.