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Paranoid Psychosis as the First Presentation of a Fulminating Lethal Case of AIDS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Christopher S. Thomas  and
E. Szabadi
Christopher S. Thomas*
Affiliation:
University of Manchester
E. Szabadi
Affiliation:
University of Manchester
*
∗Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of South Manchester, Withington Hospital, West Didsbury, Manchester M20 8LR
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Abstract

A 34-year-old heterosexual intravenous drug abuser presented with a paranoid psychosis and was subsequently found to have the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). The patient died 14 days later of generalised septicaemia. The case is reported and the aetiology and pathogenesis of the organic psychosis are discussed. It is anticipated that similar psychiatric manifestations will occur as the AIDS epidemic increases.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 151 , Issue 5 , November 1987 , pp. 693 - 695
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Copyright © 1987 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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