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Suzanna Kitten1,2, Neel D Jani3, Daniel A Llano4,5
1Psychiatry, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, Urbana, USA.
Abstract:
Functional neurological symptom disorder (FNSD), otherwise known as conversion disorder (CD), is a condition in which neurological deficits cannot solely be explained by medical pathology. Auditory verbal agnosia (AVA) is the inability to understand speech. While these two conditions are well-documented independently, a case of FNSD manifesting as AVA has not been previously reported. We present a 19-year-old patient, with a history complicated by congenital cardiomyopathy resulting in chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction and alpha-thalassemia, who demonstrated these symptoms. This case details the effectiveness of a multi-pronged treatment approach that was implemented over several years, eventually leading to the resolution of the conversion symptoms.
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