Consumptive Family History

Brief screening for family psychiatric history: the family history screen.

BACKGROUND Brief screens to collect lifetime family psychiatric history are useful in clinical practice and for identifying potential families for genetic studies. METHODS The Family History Screen (FHS) collects information on 15 psychiatric disorders and suicidal behavior in informants and their first-degree relatives. Since each question is posed only once about all family members as a gro...

Localized consumptive coagulopathy.

An 87-year-old man with an extensive past medical history was admitted for evaluation of intermittent hemoptysis of 1 month’s duration. During the hospitalization, he developed a large, subcutaneous bleed (Figure 1) after venipuncture. The patient had a known, expanding thoracic aortic aneurysm (Figures 2 and 3), and laboratory studies were consistent with an intravascular, consumptive coagulop...

The family in history

an intellectual giant; quite possibly he was not. It does not alter the fact that several very astute successors have been standing on his shoulders, including Pasteur who in 1881, at the height of his career, had no qualms at all about acknowledging his debt to Jenner. Paradoxically the present volume leaves a reader who had no illusions about Jenner-as nobody who has read for example Dixon's ...

Heritability for Stroke: Essential for Taking Family History

 There are many well-established factors that influence the risk of stroke including blood pressure, diabetes, low socioeconomic status and smoking, however, the shared genetic resource in members of a family effect on stroke predisposition. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have demonstrated evidence of a shared genetic source in stroke risk. This review considered the influence of family...

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