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Transtorno esquizoafetivo

Last reviewed: 13 Feb 2025
Last updated: 27 Jul 2022

Summary

Definition

History and exam

Key diagnostic factors

  • sintomas positivos
  • sintomas negativos
  • distúrbios de percepção
  • delírios
  • perturbações nas emoções
  • afeto incongruente
  • distúrbios de fluxo e forma de pensamento
  • anormalidades cognitivas
  • sintomas deficitários
  • episódios depressivos maiores
  • episódios maníacos
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Other diagnostic factors

  • deficit neurológico
  • história familiar
  • comprometimento funcional
  • distúrbios de comportamento
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Risk factors

  • história familiar de esquizofrenia
  • uso de substâncias
  • idade do pai no nascimento do paciente
  • estresse psicológico
  • ambiente
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Diagnostic investigations

1st investigations to order

  • exame de urina para detecção de drogas
  • rastreamento de infecções sexualmente transmissíveis
  • hemograma completo
  • testes da função tireoidiana
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Investigations to consider

  • exames laboratoriais para excluir causas orgânicas
  • tomografia computadorizada/ressonância nuclear magnética (TC/RNM) de crânio
  • eletroencefalograma (EEG)
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Treatment algorithm

ACUTE

episódio psicótico agudo

ONGOING

transtorno de episódios múltiplos

Contributors

Authors

Adrian Preda, MD
Adrian Preda

Professor of Clinical Psychiatry

Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

University of California, Irvine School of Medicine

Irvine

CA

Disclosures

AP was paid for consultancy work for GLG and Guidepoint.

Robert G. Bota, MD
Robert G. Bota

Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry

University of California

Irvine

CA

Disclosures

RGB declares that he has no competing interests.

Acknowledgements

Dr Adrian Preda and Dr Robert G. Bota would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Bao-Nhan Benjamin Nguyen, who contributed to the updating of this topic.

Disclosures

BN declares that he has no competing interests.

Peer reviewers

Kemal Sagduyu, MD

Professor of Psychiatry

University of Missouri Kansas City

Kansas City

MO

Disclosures

KS declares that he has no competing interests.

William T. Regenold, MDCM

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Baltimore

MD

Disclosures

WTR declares that he has no competing interests.

  • Differentials

    • Esquizofrenia
    • Transtorno psicótico induzido por substâncias
    • Demência com psicose
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  • Guidelines

    • International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems, 11th revision (ICD-11)
    • Diagnostic and statistical manual, 5th edition, text revision (DSM-5-TR)
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  • Patient information

    Transtorno esquizoafetivo

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