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Organization and Administration* ; Psychotherapy*

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Movement Disorders* ; Prevalence*

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Skin* ; Tissue Expansion Devices* ; Transplants*

With increasing tendency of incidence and interest for the late onset schzophrenia, concerns about whether this disorder is etiologically or phenomenogically distinctive entity or not have increased also. To clarify the disease entity of the late onset schzophrenia and the role of structural brain changes in its etiology, authors tried to prove following hypothesis : Are there any evidences of structural brain changes in the late-onset schizophrenia? ; If present, are they not different from those of the early-onset schizophrenia or progressive schizophrenia? ; And are they not different from those of senile dementia? Subjects were 6 patients with the late-onset schizophrenia, 6 patients with the early-onset schizophrenia, 6 patients with progressive schizophrenia, 6 patients with Alzheimer's dementia, and 6 controls. We measured regions of interest of the magnetic resonance images by computer assisted planimetry using the AutoCad and digitizer. Our study results may suggest that the third ventricular enlargement and a reversal of normal difference between left and right temporal lobe and left-right difference in posterior lateral ventricle are common brain pathology for all type of schizophrenia including the late onset schzophrenia. And also suggest that brain structural changes of the late onset schizophrenia are related with neurodevelopmental abnormality rather than degenerative change.
Alzheimer Disease* ; Brain Diseases ; Brain* ; Dementia ; Humans ; Incidence ; Lateral Ventricles ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging* ; Schizophrenia* ; Temporal Lobe

Vertigo mimicking labyrinthine lesions may have resulted from ischemic insult to the inner ear or the vestibular nerve and nucleus in the AICA infarction syndrome. A 56-year-old female was admitted to the emergency room with vertigo and hearing loss in right ear. On neurological examination, she had left beating jerky torsional and horizontal nystagmus with falling and past pointing to right side. Brain magnetic resonance images showed high signal intensity in anterolateral portion of inferior pons on T2- weighted images. Severe right facial palsy of peripheral type developed 24 hours after admission. Audiometry and electronystagmography documented absent auditory and vestibular function on the affected side. We argue that vertigo of the acute infarction in AICA territory can be involved the eight and seventh nerve root entry zoon and mimic labyrinthine lesions
Audiometry ; Brain ; Ear ; Ear, Inner ; Electronystagmography ; Emergency Service, Hospital ; Facial Nerve* ; Facial Paralysis ; Female ; Hearing Loss ; Humans ; Infarction* ; Middle Aged ; Neurologic Examination ; Nystagmus, Pathologic ; Pons ; Vertigo* ; Vestibular Nerve

We report a case of 64-year-old female patient who has had factitious skin lesions for 20 years. She complained formification sense and severe itching on her face. These symptoms were improved with squeezing and bleeding. There were scuare shaped ulcerated nodule on the right cheek and white depressed scar on the left cheek. She was treated with wet dressing and occlussive dressing, and skin lesions were nearly cleared within 3 weeks, but new lesion appeared. Pimozide 2mg #1 p.o were given under the diagnosis of delusion of parasitosis from June, 1984. Her symptoms were improved without recurrence till now. Treatment with pimozide in monosymptomatic hypochondriacal syndrome is discussed.
Bandages ; Cheek ; Cicatrix ; Delusions ; Dermatitis* ; Diagnosis ; Female ; Hemorrhage ; Humans ; Middle Aged ; Pimozide* ; Pruritus ; Recurrence ; Skin ; Ulcer

BACKGROUND: Since the initial report on anesthesia for the renal transplantation from Peter Bent Brighan Hospital in 1962, the anesthesia for kidney transplantation has been reviewed and discussed by many authors. We have performed 200 renal transplantations from August 1990 to October 1996. No cadaveric donor was used and all except two cases was the first graft. METHODS: Anesthetic procedures in the recipients were as follows; 1) The recipient was dialysed within 24 hrs prior to operation. 2) Premedication was done as glycopyrrolate and fentanyl, or glycopyrrolate and diazepam. 3) Thiopental and vecuronium, or thiopental and succinylcholine were used for anesthetic induction. 4) N2O-O2-relaxant (vecuronium) with halothane or isoflurane were used for maintenance. 5) Neostigmine or pyridostigmine were also used to antagonize against the relaxant. 6) CVP was maintained around 10~17 cmH2O. RESULTS: The results were as follows; 1) The mean ages of donors and recipients were 35.3 and 37.4, respectively. The ratio of male to female of donors and recipients was 1.6 : 1 and 1.6 : 1, respectively. 2) One hundred and ten cases (55.0%) were living unrelated donors and 90 cases (45.0%) were living related donors. 3) Overall graft and patient survival rate was 96.9 and 98.0 at 1 year, 94.1 and 95.1 at 3 years. CONCLUSIONS: Most patients with renal failure have several common problems that are of significance to anesthesiologists, including anemia, bleeding tendency, electrolyte imbalance, acidosis, hypertension, hyper- or hypovolemia, and previous therapy with steroids and immunosuppressants, etc. Therefore anesthesiologists should keep in mind the risk factors above mentioned for the anesthetic management of patients with renal failure.
Acidosis ; Anemia ; Anesthesia ; Cadaver ; Diazepam ; Female ; Fentanyl ; Glycopyrrolate ; Halothane ; Hemorrhage ; Humans ; Hypertension ; Hypovolemia ; Immunosuppressive Agents ; Isoflurane ; Kidney Transplantation* ; Male ; Neostigmine ; Premedication ; Pyridostigmine Bromide ; Renal Insufficiency ; Risk Factors ; Steroids ; Succinylcholine ; Survival Rate ; Thiopental ; Tissue Donors ; Transplants ; Unrelated Donors ; Vecuronium Bromide