Psicosis posparto, una urgencia psiquiátrica subdiagnosticada: a propósito de un caso

Abstract

Postpartum psychosis is an uncommon mental disease that occurs in 1 of every 1000 pregnant women after delivery. The clinical spectrum is wide, including sleeping problems, affective and psychotic symptoms associated with delusions related to her newborn and his environment. It has been related to the bipolar affective disorder and it is included as a brief psychotic disorder in the DSM-V for mental diseases. The clinical case of a 20-year old woman is described in a public hospital in Medellín, Colombia, whom after giving cesarean delivery for a complicated pre-eclampsia presents a postpartum hemorrhage and then a postpartum psychosis associated with prodromal symptoms, with no previous history of a mental disease. This entity is poorly diagnosed because there is a lack of awareness about it, and it represents a psychiatric urgency that must be treated accordingly. Lithium is the first line in the treatment that literature reports.