Table of Contents
Credits
Host: Sara Dong
Guests: Alexandra Mendelsohn, Alysse Wurcel
Content is based on the CID article featured in this episode although with additional writing by Sara Dong
Cover Art: Sara Dong
Edited and produced by Sara Dong with support from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)
Our Guests
Alexandra Mendelsohn, MD
Dr. Alex Mendelsohn is a current psychiatry resident at Dell Medical School at University of Texas Austin. She completed medical school at Tufts in Boston, MA.
Alysse Wurcel, MD, MS, FIDSA
Dr. Alysse Wurcel just moved to Boston Medical Center where she is in the Division of General Internal Medicine and the Division of Infectious Diseases. She did internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital followed by ID fellowship at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital and Tufts Medical Center. In addition to her work as an inpatient ID doctor, Dr. Wurcel has an outpatient clinic where she specializes in HIV, HCV and substance use disorder care. Dr. Wurcel provides HIV and HCV care at five county jails in eastern MA. She is an NIH and AHRQ-funded health services researchers interested in the barriers and facilitators to care for treatment and prevention of infections in people who use drugs, people who are incarcerated and people with HIV.
Culture
Alysse shared her love of golden retrievers and the fun fact of their paw colonization with Malassezia furfur
Alex has been excited about her UT women’s basketball season tickets
Consult Notes
Welcome to this Febrile StAR episode!
These StAR episodes feature discussions with authors from State-of-the-Art Review articles from the Clinical Infectious Diseases journal (CID).
This episode is based on: Mendelsohn A, Sato T, Subedi A, Wurcel AG. State-of-the-Art Review: Evaluation and Management of Delusional Infestation. Clin Infect Dis. 2024;79(2):e1-e10. doi:10.1093/cid/ciae250
Journal companion article – Executive summary link: https://academic.oup.com/cid/article-abstract/79/2/287/7718273
Infographics
Goal
Listeners will be able to evaluate and manage delusional infestation
Learning Objectives
After listening to this episode, listeners will be able to:
- Define delusional infestation
- Discuss important features of evaluation that should be included in initial evaluation of delusional infestation based on history, exam, and labs
- Compare pharmacologic options available for management, including those for symptom management and antipsychotics
- Describe possible strategies to manage the complicated clinician-patient dynamic with patients with delusional infestation
Disclosures
Febrile podcast reports no relevant financial disclosures
Potential conflicts of interest are noted in the CID article as well as reproduced below:
Authors have no reported conflicts of interest
Citation
Mendelsohn, A., Wurcel, A., Dong, S. “#114: StAR: Delusional infestation”. Febrile: A Cultured Podcast. https://player.captivate.fm/episode/b0928cb5-df4a-4747-a9a7-ffd3bfe4fff2/