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Hypochondriac delusion

MedGen UID:: 1051485
•Concept ID:: CN375797
•: Finding

HPO:	HP:5200425

Definition

Bodily preoccupation, disease phobia, and a false fixed conviction of the presence of disease with no response to reassurance. [from HPO]

Term Hierarchy

GTR
MeSH

CClinical test, RResearch test, OOMIM, GGeneReviews, VClinVar

CROGVHypochondriac delusion

Abnormality of the nervous system
- Abnormal nervous system physiology
  - Abnormality of mental function
    - Abnormal experience of reality
      - Abnormal judgment
        Delusion
        Hypochondriac delusion

Professional guidelines

PubMed

Diagnosis and management of delusional parasitosis.

Campbell EH, Elston DM, Hawthorne JD, Beckert DR
J Am Acad Dermatol 2019 May;80(5):1428-1434. Epub 2018 Dec 11 doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2018.12.012. PMID: 30543832

Prevalence of psychiatric symptoms and mental disorders detected in primary care in an elderly Spanish population. The PSICOTARD Study: preliminary findings.

Olivera J, Benabarre S, Lorente T, Rodríguez M, Pelegrín C, Calvo JM, Leris JM, Idáñez D, Arnal S
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 2008 Sep;23(9):915-21. doi: 10.1002/gps.2004. PMID: 18311851

Therapeutic update: use of risperidone for the treatment of monosymptomatic hypochondriacal psychosis.

Elmer KB, George RM, Peterson K
J Am Acad Dermatol 2000 Oct;43(4):683-6. doi: 10.1067/mjd.2000.106510. PMID: 11004627

Recent clinical studies

Etiology

A pioneer work on electric brain stimulation in psychotic patients. Rudolph Gottfried Arndt and his 1870s studies.

Steinberg H
Brain Stimul 2013 Jul;6(4):477-81. Epub 2012 Dec 6 doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2012.11.004. PMID: 23266132

Diagnosis

Delusional parasitosis: a rare cause of pruritus in hemodialysis patients.

Trigka K, Dousdampanis P, Fourtounas C
Int J Artif Organs 2012 May;35(5):400-3. doi: 10.5301/ijao.5000072. PMID: 22476880

Therapy

Delusional parasitosis: a rare cause of pruritus in hemodialysis patients.

Trigka K, Dousdampanis P, Fourtounas C
Int J Artif Organs 2012 May;35(5):400-3. doi: 10.5301/ijao.5000072. PMID: 22476880

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