Objective: This case report highlights the clinical dilemmas encountered in deciding the diagnostic status of persons with unipolar depression who develop hypomania during antidepressant/electroconvulsive therapy.
Methods: We report a case of a 52 year-old Chinese lady, diagnosed with unipolar depression, which developed hypomania after she was started on T. Fluvoxamine 100mg daily and completed 8 sessions of Electroconvulsive therapy.
Results: Her diagnosis was revised to Bipolar Disorder and she was treated with T. Sodium Valproate 400mg twice daily after which she improved.
Conclusion: Treatment-emergent hypomania is likely a subtype of bipolar spectrum disorder and patients with Treatment - emergent Hypomania should be treated as Bipolar Disorder.
Objective: This case report highlights psychosis post craniopharyngioma surgery.
Methods: We report a case of a young Malay lady who presented with psychotic symptoms after she underwent craniotomy for craniopharyngioma.
Results: Presence of prominent hallucinations and delusions after removal of the tumour and the symptoms lasted more than a month. The psychosis subsided with antipsychotic.
Conclusion: Psychosis post craniopharyngioma surgery is still possible whether possibly due to the residual tumour or as a result of treatment sequealae.