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Scientific Assembly

Track Session

Session: Session 402

Medical Mimics Not to Miss

Thursday, April 10, 2025
9:00am – 9:20am ET
Location: Versailles - 2nd Level
CE: 0.25 CME Credit
Psychobehavioral Recorded Session

    Speaker(s)

  • Leslie S. Zun, MD MBA FAAEM

    Professor of Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine
    Chicago Medical School
    Wilmette, Illinois

    Disclosure(s): Bioxcel: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Terminated)

Disclosure(s):
Leslie S. Zun, MD MBA FAAEM: Bioxcel: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Terminated)
Frequently, patients present with psychiatric symptoms that turn out to have a medical etiology. Many of these medical mimics are commonly known such as hypoglycemia and myxedema coma but some are less common which makes them more difficult to diagnosis and manage. This course will focus on some of the less common etiologies of such psychiatric presentations due to a medical cause such as rare toxic exposures, catatonia from medical causes and encephalitis related to NMDA receptor antagonist. Case presentations will be used to illustrate the evaluation and treatment of these disorders..

Learning Objectives:

  • To list non-traditional causes for patient presenting with psychotic features or depression symptoms
  • to describe the lorazepam challenge for patients with catatonia and expected outcome.
  • To define the means to determine a definitive etiology for some psychiatric presentations