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The diagnosis of delirium in 80 emergency unit patients
NEVES,AFONSO CARLOS; SESSO,RICARDO DE CASTRO CINTRA; FERRAZ,HENRIQUE BALLALAI; FRANCISCO,SÍLVIO; REIS-FILHO,JOÃO BAPTISTA DOSWe evaluated the initial and final diagnosis of 80 patients with delirium arriving at the emergence unit of a university hospital in a large Brazilian city over a period of 30 months up to December 1991. The diagnosis was based on the DSM-IIIR criteria. Patients with a known history of head trauma or epileptic seizure and patients younger than 13 years were excluded. Only patients with a disease of up to 7 days...
Cerebrospinal fluid syndromes in patients with acute consciousness compromise
BATISTA,MARCUS SABRY AZAR; NEVES,AFONSO CARLOS; SESSO,RICARDO C.C.; REIS-FILHO,JOÃO BATISTA DOSWe reviewed the laboratorycards of 200 analysis of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) performed to evaluate acute alterations of consciousness in adult patients attended in a neurological emergency room. 61% were men; the mean age was 46 years. The most common clinical data were infective and neurologic. The CSF was abnormal in 149 (74.5%) patients and the most common syndromes were: compressive (21%), hemorrhagic (11.5...