Primary Angiitis of the Central Nervous System: From Psychiatry to Neurology

Joel Leonardi; Christian Saleh; Phillip Jaszczuk; Kristine A Blackham; Sabrina Zechel; Stefanie Wilmes; Margret Hund-Georgiadis

doi:10.1155/2019/8074258

Primary Angiitis of the Central Nervous System: From Psychiatry to Neurology

Case Rep Neurol Med. 2019 Oct 31:2019:8074258. doi: 10.1155/2019/8074258. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Joel Leonardi¹, Christian Saleh¹, Phillip Jaszczuk¹, Kristine A Blackham², Sabrina Zechel³, Stefanie Wilmes¹, Margret Hund-Georgiadis¹

Affiliations

¹ REHAB Basel, Clinic for Neurorehabilitation and Paraplegiology, Basel, Switzerland.
² Department of Radiology, Division of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
³ Institute of Neuropathology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.

Abstract

We present a case of a 54-year-old man with primary angiitis of the central nervous system (PACNS) who was initially admitted to a psychiatric clinic with a diagnosis of delirium. We discuss the difficulty in establishing the diagnosis of PACNS and provide the reader with some recommendations on how to promptly and correctly diagnose this disease in order to avoid potentially lethal outcomes.

Publication types

Case Reports