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K Duda

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PubMed1991

Attribution and expressed emotion in the relatives of patients with schizophrenia.

Indexes of expressed emotion (EE) in 58 relatives of patients with schizophrenia were related to those relatives' spontaneously expressed causal beliefs about the illness and about related symptoms and behaviors. Relatives made attributions predominantly to factors external, universal, and uncontrollable from their own perspective, and to factors internal, universal, and uncontrollable from the patient's perspective. Low-EE relatives were similar in their attributions to emotionally overinvolved relatives. Compared with these two groups, critical and/or hostile relatives made more attributions to factors personal to and controllable by the patient. Subsequent analyses suggested that hostile relatives were further characterized by making more attributions to factors internal to the patient and by making attributions with fewer causal elements.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1989

[Diagnostic problems in patients with superior vena cava syndrome].

Diagnostical difficulties were shown in 275 patients with the superior vena cava syndrome (SVCS) evaluated in the years 1970-1982. Men consisted 84 percent of the group. In 68 percent the symptoms preceded hospitalization by less than one month. 31 percent of the patients were treated without histopathological verification. In 83 percent the cause of the SVCS was lung cancer. Only in 10 patients (5.3%) non-malignant causes were present. Basing on analysis of their material the authors conclude that it it possible to make a diagnosis of SVCS etiology in the majority of the patients. This is mandatory because the etiology of this syndrome is variable, and the therapy may produce unwarranted and unjustified side effects in many cases.

Adult↗
PubMed1989

[Effect of age and intravenous dose of lidocaine on the circulatory reaction during bronchoscopy].

The hypertonic reaction and pulse increase was studied in 88 males undergoing bronchoscopy under general anaesthesia. 28 patients were below 45 years of age, 60 were above 60 years. In half of the patients prior to introduction of the bronchoscope into the trachea lidocaine was given in a dose 1.5 mg per kg b.w. Differences in circulatory reactions were seen related to age and lidocaine administration. In the group of younger patients tachycardia was observed, in the older patients increased diastolic and systolic pressure. After lidocaine infusion the differences in circulatory reactions between the age groups became nonsignificant. This study suggests that lidocaine has a negative chronotropic reaction especially in younger patients and hypotensive in older.

Adult↗