A female patient with late-onset schizophrenia and fear of Katwijk disease

A 66-year-old patient had suffered from late-onset schizophrenia from the age of 44. Her family history included reports of brain haemorrhages, possibly resulting from hereditary amyloidal angiopathy of the Dutch type (Katwijk disease). She was very afraid for having this disease. The progression of...

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Published inTijdschrift voor psychiatrie Vol. 51; no. 4; p. 255
Main Authors Veerman, S R T, Sno, H N, Ravelli, D P, Roos, R A C
Format Journal Article
LanguageDutch
Published Netherlands 2009
Subjects
Age of Onset
Aged
Brain Diseases - diagnosis
Brain Diseases - psychology
Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy, Familial - diagnosis
Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy, Familial - psychology
Chronic Disease
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Frontal Lobe - pathology
Humans
Huntington Disease - diagnosis
Huntington Disease - psychology
Schizophrenia - diagnosis
Schizophrenic Psychology
Vascular Diseases - diagnosis
Vascular Diseases - psychology
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Summary:A 66-year-old patient had suffered from late-onset schizophrenia from the age of 44. Her family history included reports of brain haemorrhages, possibly resulting from hereditary amyloidal angiopathy of the Dutch type (Katwijk disease). She was very afraid for having this disease. The progression of the psychiatric symptoms and the age at which they began, led us to suspect an organic process. Differential diagnoses that were discussed included cerebral amyloidal angiopathy, frontal lobe dementia and Huntington's disease.
ISSN:0303-7339