Síndrome de Charles Bonnet: presentación de tres casos y revisión de la literatura

Charles Bonnet syndrome is characterized by the presence of visual hallucinations associated with loss of vision. We report three patients aged 74, 84 and 80 years (two women) with a severe loss of vision due to ocular diseases and silent visual hallucinations, that they recognized as unreal. Two pa...

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Autores principales:	Donoso S,Archibaldo, Silva R,Carlos, Fuentes G,Patricio, Gaete C,Germán
Lenguaje:	Spanish / Castilian
Publicado:	Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2007
Materias:	Charles Bonnet syndrome Dementia Hallucinations
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0034-988720070008000112007-10-25Síndrome de Charles Bonnet: presentación de tres casos y revisión de la literaturaDonoso S,ArchibaldoSilva R,CarlosFuentes G,PatricioGaete C,Germán Charles Bonnet syndrome Dementia Hallucinations Charles Bonnet syndrome is characterized by the presence of visual hallucinations associated with loss of vision. We report three patients aged 74, 84 and 80 years (two women) with a severe loss of vision due to ocular diseases and silent visual hallucinations, that they recognized as unreal. Two patients felt that the hallucinations were ominous. Years later, two suffered a probable Alzheimer's disease (AD). One of them had a mild cognitive impairment when the syndrome appeared, that evolved into an AD with psychosis. This syndrome is not uncommon in older patients with loss of vision and it is probably underdiagnosed. Its pathogenesis is probably a cortical deafferentation. The content of the visual hallucinations (faces, landscaped, and so on) coincides with the activation of different areas of the visual association cortices) (Rev Méd Chile 2007; 135:1034-39)info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.135 n.8 20072007-08-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872007000800011es10.4067/S0034-98872007000800011
institution	Scielo Chile
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language	Spanish / Castilian
topic	Charles Bonnet syndrome Dementia Hallucinations
spellingShingle	Charles Bonnet syndrome Dementia Hallucinations Donoso S,Archibaldo Silva R,Carlos Fuentes G,Patricio Gaete C,Germán Síndrome de Charles Bonnet: presentación de tres casos y revisión de la literatura
description	Charles Bonnet syndrome is characterized by the presence of visual hallucinations associated with loss of vision. We report three patients aged 74, 84 and 80 years (two women) with a severe loss of vision due to ocular diseases and silent visual hallucinations, that they recognized as unreal. Two patients felt that the hallucinations were ominous. Years later, two suffered a probable Alzheimer's disease (AD). One of them had a mild cognitive impairment when the syndrome appeared, that evolved into an AD with psychosis. This syndrome is not uncommon in older patients with loss of vision and it is probably underdiagnosed. Its pathogenesis is probably a cortical deafferentation. The content of the visual hallucinations (faces, landscaped, and so on) coincides with the activation of different areas of the visual association cortices) (Rev Méd Chile 2007; 135:1034-39)
author	Donoso S,Archibaldo Silva R,Carlos Fuentes G,Patricio Gaete C,Germán
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title	Síndrome de Charles Bonnet: presentación de tres casos y revisión de la literatura
title_short	Síndrome de Charles Bonnet: presentación de tres casos y revisión de la literatura
title_full	Síndrome de Charles Bonnet: presentación de tres casos y revisión de la literatura
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title_full_unstemmed	Síndrome de Charles Bonnet: presentación de tres casos y revisión de la literatura
title_sort	síndrome de charles bonnet: presentación de tres casos y revisión de la literatura
publisher	Sociedad Médica de Santiago
publishDate	2007
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Síndrome de Charles Bonnet: presentación de tres casos y revisión de la literatura

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