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A Foerster

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Low birth weight and a family history of schizophrenia predict poor premorbid functioning in psychosis.

Risk factors thought to predispose to schizophrenia, and premorbid functioning, were assessed blind to diagnosis by interviewing the mothers of 73 patients with DSM-III schizophrenia or affective psychosis. Higher risk of schizophrenia in relatives, lower mean birth weight, a more frequent history of obstetric complications, and poorer educational achievement distinguished the patients with schizophrenia from those with affective psychosis. Low birth weight and obstetric complications each predicted childhood schizoid and schizotypal traits. Poor social adjustment between ages 5 and 11 was predicted by low birthweight and by a family history of schizophrenia.

Adolescent↗

Single lung transplantation as treatment for end-stage pulmonary sarcoidosis: recurrence of sarcoidosis in two different lung allografts in one patient.

Three patients have undergone single lung transplantation in our hospital because of respiratory failure as a result of sarcoidosis. Two patients survived the postoperative period. Obliterative bronchiolitis developed in one of these patients, and recurrence of sarcoidosis in the transplanted lung necessitated contralateral single lung transplantation. Nine months later the first transplant became necrotic and infected and had to be removed. The postoperative course was uncomplicated. However, transbronchial biopsy specimens 10 months after retransplantation show sarcoid changes also in the second transplant, but without any signs of cellular rejection.

Bronchiolitis Obliterans↗