This case report highlights the potential benefits of an interdisciplinary approach combining antihypertensives, antidepressants, and psychotherapy for patients with comorbid hypertension and somatic depression.
Supports interdisciplinary care for hypertension with somatic depression; leaves open confirmation in prospective trials.
The paper describes a clinical case of hypertension and somatic depression in a female patient. It considers the differential diagnosis of somatic symptomatology within affective disorders, depicts the manifestations of a somatic disease, and analyzes the aspects of personal predisposition to a mental disorder. The authors note the advantages of an interdisciplinary approach to therapy with antihypertensive drugs and antidepressants and psychotherapy. Of particular interest is the problem in the diagnosis and therapy of moderate cognitive impairment in a patient with cardiac and psychiatric comorbidities.
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