Table 2 A sampling of diagnoses other than hysterical conversion reaction (HCR) assigned to HCR case patients
Admission diagnoses later revised to HCR* | No. Patients (N=78) | Revised discharge diagnoses of patients admitted with HCR diagnosis* | No. Patients (N=98) |
|---|---|---|---|
Symptomatic/Syndromic, not otherwise specified | Medical diagnosis or symptom: | ||
Respiratory distress or dyspnea | 15 | Pelvic inflammatory disease | 11 |
Headache | 10 | Costochondritis | 6 |
Convulsion | 9 | Urinary tract infection | 5 |
Chest pain | 8 | Respiratory tract infection | 4 |
Vomiting/diarrhea/abdominal pain | 7 | Peptic ulcer disease | 4 |
Unconsciousness | 4 | Sinusitis | 3 |
Fever | 3 | Enteric fever | 3 |
Restlessness | 2 | Convulsion | 3 |
Vertigo | 2 | Bronchial asthma | 2 |
Respiratory distress or dyspnea | 15 | Migraine | 2 |
Others including palpitation, swelling, weakness, bodyache | 1 each | Assorted others (e.g. paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, unstable angina, stroke, pleural effusion, combined deficiency anemia, chronic tonsillitis, electrolyte imbalance, dysmenorrhea, right ovarian cyst, acute calculus, post-menopausal osteoporosis, and fibroadenoma of the breast) | 1 each |
Psychiatric: | |||
Generalized anxiety disorder | 3 | ||
Anxiety neurosis | 2 | ||
Medical: | |||
Asthma | 1 | ||
Ischemic heart disease | 1 | ||
Psychiatric | |||
Anxiety neurosis | 18 | ||
Generalized anxiety disorder | 9 | ||
Acute stress reaction | 4 | ||
Panic attack/disorder | 3 | ||
Schizophrenia | 1 | ||