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Clinical cases, pathogenesis and diagnosis of catatonia in affective disorders (depression and mania) in adolescents

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104-124

Abstract

Catatonia is an important syndrome found in both psychiatry and gen­eral medicine. However, identification and treatment of this phenomenon is difficult without modern diagnostic scales for catatonia.

Purpose — to describe the cases of inhibited and excitable catatonia in adolescents with affective disorders.

Methods — clinical observation in accordance with the ICD-10 diagnos­tic criteria for affective disorders in depression and mania, the use of Beck de­pression scale, Beck anxiety scale, Young scale of mania, Bush-Francis catato­nia rating scale. Differential diagnosis with the participation of a team of spe­cialists: neurologist, psychiatrist, clinical psychologist, cardiologist, infectious disease specialist, pediatrician.

Results and discussion. Catatonia in children occurs in various condi­tions that are not always associated with schizophrenia: with general deve­lopmental disorders, epilepsy, affective disorders, sports injuries of the cervical spine. Difficulties in recognizing and appropriately treating catatonia can lead to poor patient outcomes due to inappropriate treatment that aggravates the course of catatonia. The most effective treatment for catatonia is benzodi­azepine tranquilizers and / or electroconvulsive therapy; the latter is the method of last choice if the early administration of benzodiazepine derivatives has been missed, or they are ineffective even at high doses. The use of a stand­ardized, highly valid Bush-Francis catatonia rating scale will facilitate the di­agnosis of this disorder and taking a fast decision-making.

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