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N Ahuja

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Dhat syndrome. A sex neurosis of the Indian subcontinent.

Dhat syndrome is a culture-bound sex neurosis of the Indian subcontinent. Fifty-two patients with a presenting complaint of passage of 'Dhat' in urine were studied. Diagnosis of neurotic depression, anxiety neurosis, hypochondriacal neurosis, and psychogenic impotence were made in 21, 19, 3, and 1 cases respectively. Seven patients received the diagnosis of pure Dhat syndrome, and one of gonorrhoea.

Adolescent↗

A study of psychiatrically normal children in a hospital based child guidance clinic.

A total of 1330 children who attended a hospital-based child guidance clinic in last three years were studied retrospectively. 7.37% of these were found to have no psychiatric disorder. Epilepsy and scholastic backwardness without any psychiatric disorder, together constituted 70.41% of this group. Children referred to a child guidance clinic require proper assessment to detect psychiatrically normal children who would otherwise receive unnecessary label of psychiatric disorder and treatment.

Child↗

Hemodynamic characteristics of the composite strut ball valve prostheses (Starr-Edwards track valves) in patients on anticoagulants.

The hemodynamic characteristics of the composite strut ball valve prostheses (Starr-Edwards Model 2400 aortic track valve and Model 6400 mitral track valve) were evaluated in anticoagulated patients. The peak systolic gradient (mean +/- SE) for the aortic valve in 16 patients was 18.1 +/- 3.9 mm Hg; the mean gradient was 17.0 +/- 2.7 mm Hg; the prosthetic valve area was 1.7 +/- 0.1 cm2; and the valve area index was 1.0 +/- 0.1 cm2/m2. In the 19 patients with the mitral valve, the mean diastolic gradient (mean +/- SE) was 5.2 +/- 0.7 mm Hg. The prosthetic valve area was 2.0 +/- 0.1 cm2, and the valve area index was 1.3 +/- 0.1 cm2/m2. These hemodynamic parameters are helpful in evaluating the catheterization findings in patients with composite strut prosthetic valves who are suspected of having prosthesis dysfunction. They also demonstrate the satisfactory in vivo hemodynamics in anticoagulated patients with these prostheses.

Adult↗