Glucose Intolerance in Monkeys Following Head Injury

Hallucinosis following Head Injury

Eleven patients who evinced hallucinations during the early recovery after head injury were studied in detail in comparison to the head injured controls. All of them had suffered from acceleration injuries. Among the clinical variables, post traumatic amnesia was significantly longer in these patients. Length of FTA was found to be correlated with duration of occurrence of hallucinations. Sever...

Paramnestic Delusions following Head Injury

Paramnesic delusions are rare psychiatric sequelae after head injury. In a follow-up of 346 patients only three such cases were seen. Case histories of those patients with a follow-up for eighteen months, their clinical features, psychometric evaluations etc. are described, followed by a discussion into their genesis and persistence.

Glucose intolerance in pulmonary tuberculosis.

The frequency of glucose intolerance was studied in 106 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis attending Nazimabad Chest Clinic. Diagnosis was based on X-ray and a positive sputum smear. An oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) was performed and evaluated according to the WHO criteria. Glucose intolerance was detected in 52 (49%) patients, 31 Impaired Glucose Tolerance (IGT), 21 Diabetes Mellitus (D...

Epidemiology of head injury in Kerman

This cross-sectional study was carried out during the year 1990 at Shahid Bahonar hospital of Kerman. During this period 1350 patients were admitted, 53℅ of whom were below the age cases occurring between 3 to 7 pm. The highest rate of admission was in summer. The average stay at the hospital was 7.2 days and the mortality rate in these patients was 8.14℅ , twenty four of whom (22.2℅) expired a...

Glucose intolerance in cystic fibrosis.