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Patients with Acute Stroke Presenting Like Conversion Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2018

Mustafa Serinken  and
Ozgur Karcioglu
Mustafa Serinken*
Affiliation:
Emergency Medicine, Yuzyıl Hospital Emergency Service, Istanbul, Turkey
Ozgur Karcioglu
Affiliation:
Emergency Medicine, Istanbul Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
*
Correspondence: Mustafa Serinken, MD Professor of Emergency Medicine Yuzyıl Hospital Emergency Service Istanbul, Turkey E-mail: aserinken@hotmail.com
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Abstract

Conversion disorder is a form of somatoform disorders which has a high prevalence among women, individuals with lower socioeconomic status, under-educated populations, and in developing countries. However, up to one-half of patients who had been initially diagnosed with conversion disorder were eventually shown to have an underlying organic pathology–mostly neurological or non-psychiatric conditions. In this article, two patients are presented who accessed the emergency department (ED) with an initial diagnosis of conversion disorder in the ambulance that turned out to be stroke.

Serinken M, Karcioglu O. Patients with acute stroke presenting like conversion disorder. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2018;33(4):451–453

Keywords

conversion disorderemergency departmentsomatoformstroke
Type
Case Report
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , August 2018 , pp. 451 - 453
Copyright
© World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2018 

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Footnotes

Conflicts of interest/financial disclosure: No conflict of interest was declared by the authors. The authors declared that this study has received no financial support.

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