Visual release hallucinations

Description

Visual release hallucinations, also called Charles Bonnet syndrome, refer to the experience of complex visual hallucinations in a person who has experienced partial or complete loss of vision. Hallucinations are exclusively visual, usually temporary, and unrelated to mental and behavioural disorders.

Index terms

Visual release hallucinations
Charles Bonnet syndrome

Excludes

http://id.who.int/icd/entity/405565289 – Schizophrenia or other primary psychotic disorders

Exclusions from above levels

01 – Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
05 – Endocrine, nutritional or metabolic diseases
18 – Complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium

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19 – Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period
22 – Injury, poisoning or certain other consequences of external causes
8A21.0 – Posterior cortical atrophy

Sibling codes

9D50 – Visual discomfort
9D51 – Transient visual loss
9D52 – Hemifield losses
9D53 – Entoptic phenomena
9D54 – Visual illusions
9D55 – Nonorganic visual loss
9D5Y – Other specified subjective visual experiences
9D5Z – Subjective visual experiences, unspecified

Foundation entity

Visual release hallucinations – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/920412840

Part of: 09: Diseases of the visual system