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A Case Report on Cerebral Periventricular Leukomalacia and Schizophrenia
Authors: Ali Mahmood Khan, Javeria Sahib Din, Faiza Farooq, Muhammad Mustafa Ahmed, Nimisha Srivastava, Naveed Ahmed Shaikh, Abdul Mohit
Abstract
This case is of a patient 24 years old male of Haitian-American origin, speaks English who is diagnosed with schizophrenia and cannabis use disorder. The patient had a premature delivery and the mother was not on any sort of medication during pregnancy. The first outbreak occurred in 2010 and was diagnosed with schizophrenia then. The patient is a drug addict and upon MRI cerebral leukomalacia was observed. There was no family history of such diseases and the symptoms of the patient were extremely self-damaging.
Citation:
Ali Mahmood Khan, Javeria Sahib Din, Faiza Farooq, et al. A Case Report on Cerebral Periventricular Leukomalacia and Schizophrenia. 2018; 2(1).
DOI:
10.33425/2639-8451.1008
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