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Transtorno obsessivo-compulsivo

Última revisão: 16 Aug 2025
Última atualização: 23 Aug 2024

Resumo

Definição

História e exame físico

Principais fatores diagnósticos

  • presença de fatores de risco
  • obsessões
  • compulsões
  • fenômenos sensoriais
  • transtorno de personalidade esquizotípica
  • transtorno de tique
  • coordenação motora reduzida
  • dificuldades sensório-perceptivas
  • dificuldades no sequenciamento de tarefas motoras complexas
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Outros fatores diagnósticos

  • sexo masculino
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Fatores de risco

  • história familiar de TOC
  • PANDAS (transtornos neuropsiquiátricos autoimunes pediátricos associados à infecção por estreptococos)
  • gestação
  • sexo masculino (início mais cedo, evolução mais crônica e resistência ao tratamento)
  • maior frequência das compulsões (resistência ao tratamento)
  • idade precoce de início (resistência ao tratamento)
  • hospitalizações anteriores devidas ao TOC (resistência ao tratamento)
  • transtorno de personalidade esquizotípica (resistência ao tratamento)
  • transtorno de tique (resistência ao tratamento)
  • anormalidades estruturais do cérebro específicas ou difusas (resistência ao tratamento)
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Investigações diagnósticas

Primeiras investigações a serem solicitadas

  • nenhum exame inicial
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Investigações a serem consideradas

  • Entrevista Clínica Estruturada do DSM (SCID)
  • Escala de Sintomas Obsessivo-Compulsivos de Yale-Brown (Y-BOCS)
  • Impressão clínica global (CGI)
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Algoritmo de tratamento

AGUDA

sintomas leves a moderados: sem transtornos de personalidade comórbidos ou sintomas dissociativos

sintomas graves ou com transtornos de personalidade comórbidos ou sintomas dissociativos

Colaboradores

Autores

Phillip J. Seibell, MD, FAPA
Phillip J. Seibell

OCD and Anxiety Psychiatry of Westchester, P.C.

Hawthorne

NY

Declarações

PJS has received honoraria from Slack, Inc., for guest editing an issue on OCD.

Stefano Pallanti, MD, PhD
Stefano Pallanti

Professor of Psychiatry

Institute of Neuroscience

Florence

Italy

Declarações

SP declares that he has no competing interests. SP is an author of several references cited in this topic.

Silvia Bernardi, MD
Silvia Bernardi

Project Manager

New York State Psychiatric Institute

Columbia University

New York

NY

Declarações

SB receives research sponsorship from NYSPI, APA, and the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. SB is also a board member of the New York council on Problem Gambling. SB is an author of a reference cited in this topic.

Megan Hughes-Feltenberger, PhD
Megan Hughes-Feltenberger

Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry

Assistant Director of Education for Psychology

Weill Cornell Medical College

Assistant Attending Psychologist

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

New York

NY

Declarações

MHF declares that she has no competing interests.

Eric Hollander, MD
Eric Hollander

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Director

Compulsive, Impulsive and Autism Spectrum Disorder Program

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Montefiore Medical Center

New York

NY

Declarações

EH has received research grants from, and has consulted for, Roche, GW Pharmaceuticals, and Bixink.

Agradecimentos

The authors would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Ashley Braun, a previous contributor to this topic. AB declares that she has no competing interests.

Peer reviewers

Juliana Belo Diniz, MD

Psychiatrist

Department and Institute of Psychiatry

Clinical Hospital

University of Sao Paulo Medical School

Sao Paulo

Brazil

Disclosures

JBD declares that she has no competing interests.

Amit Nigam, MBBS, MRCPsych

Specialist Registrar in Forensic Psychiatry and Honorary Research Worker

National OCD Service

Queen Elizabeth II Hospital

Welwyn Garden City

Forensic Psychiatrist

West London Mental Health NHS Trust

London

UK

Disclosures

AN declares that he has no competing interests.

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References

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Key articles

American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 5th edition, text revision (DSM-5-TR). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing; 2022.

World Health Organization. International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems. 11th revision. Jan 2022 [internet publication].Full text

American Psychiatric Association. Practice guideline for the treatment of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Am J Psychiatry. July 2007 [internet publication].Full text

American Psychiatric Association. Guideline watch (March 2013): Practice guideline for the treatment of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. March 2013 [internet publication].Full text

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