Schizophrenia as A Systemic Disease

Schizophrenia as a systemic disease.

Although in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of MentalDisordersof the American Psychiatric Association (DSM) schizophrenia is listed as a psychotic disorder, DSM criteria include negative symptoms and psychomotor abnormalities as well as hallucinations, delusions, and disorganization. In recent years, the concept that cognitive impairment—problems in memory, attention, executive function, ...

[Atherosclerosis as a systemic disease].

Atherosclerosis is a widespread, chronic progressive disease that mainly involves medium-sized arteries. Clinically, it can become apparent as ischemic heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, or peripheral arterial disease. In Spain, atherosclerosis is responsible for 124,000 deaths each year. Despite the trend towards a reduction in the aged-adjusted mortality rate for cardiovascular disease, ...

Moyamoya Disease (presenting as Schizophrenia)

The aetiology of Schizophrenia is still obscure. This case report is of interest because it draws attention to a hitherto neglected area in this filed, i.e., the role of cerebro-vascular malformation and the resulting insufficiency in the cerebral circulation as a possible factor in the pathogenesis of Schizophrenia.

Chronic Periaortitis as a Systemic Autoimmune Disease

Lactoferrin as a Marker of Systemic Inflammatory Response

Materials and methods. 51 patients, who were ill with generalized peritonitis, went through a prospective randomized research. They were randomized on groups depending on the objective score SAPS (1984): 29 survived people (53%) and 22 people with favorable end (47%). Intensive care and surgical tactics standardized patients. Lactoferrin (LF) as modulator of systemic inflammatory response (SIR)...