Volume 4 Issue 1 January, 2014 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: ‘Physical medicine and rehabilitation’ Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR), also known as Physiatry or rehabilitation medicine, is a branch of medicine that aims to enhance and restore functional ability and quality of life to those with physical impairments or disabilities. A physician having completed training […]
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Hematology and Psychiatry
Volume 3 Issue 12 December, 2013 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: ‘Hematology’ Hematology is a branch of medicine which deals with blood and blood related disorders. Hematological problems may, vary from sudden, severe and life threatening to long term chronically progressive and may lead to lifelong misery, discomfort and anxiety to the patients. Diagnosis of such […]
The “Mind” of a Neonatal Specialist
Volume 3 Issue 11 November, 2013 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: ‘Neonatology’ Neonatology in India is probably in the best phase ever. The state of the art Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU), the qualified personnel and supporting staff have made this branch of Pediatrics as exciting as ever. The challenges faced day in and day out […]
SYPHILIS AN ENIGMA
Volume 3 Issue 10 October, 2013 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: ‘Microbiology’ The Austrian psychiatrist Julius Wagner Ritter von Jauregg tried inoculation of malaria parasites in the case ofdementia paralytica caused by neurosyphilis, which successfully cured not only associated severe mental illness but also syphilis. In 1927, this discovery earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology […]
DEPRESSION AND CANCER
Volume 3 Issue 9 September, 2013 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: Psycho-Oncology “The good Physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has the disease” said Sir William Osler. Likewise treatment of cancer patient is not complete if you do not address the associated psychological distresses withthe disease. Depression is one of the […]
ENDOCRINE EFFECTS OF LITHIUM
Volume 3 Issue 8 August, 2013 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: Endocrinology Lithium remains an effective and inexpensive medication to treat Bipolar disorders. Though lithium is among of the best drugs Psychiatrist prescribes in Bipolar disorders, one should be aware of endocrine disorders associated with Lithium. Hypothyroidism and Goiter Up to 50% of patients on chronic […]
Overview of surgical intervention in erectile dysfunction
Volume 3 Issue 7 July, 2013 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: Urology Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a sexual dysfunction characterized by the inability to develop or maintain an erection of the penis. Treatment consists of education, therapies, medications, penile pump and surgery. Surgical interventions are indicated in cases of penile injuries, Peyronie’s disease, ischaemic priapism or […]
The need for psychiatrist support in cardiac unit
Volume 3 Issue 6 June, 2013 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus : Cardiothoracic Surgery Being a cardiac surgeon, we come across the colleagues in psychiatry less frequently. For us the important aspect what we would be looking would be the cardiac state and whether patient is fit for surgery or not and also in the follow […]
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Psychiatric co morbidities
Volume 3 Issue 5 May, 2013 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: Rheumatology Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a multisystem disease with protean manifestations and these are a result of circulating pathogenic autoantibodies, deposition of immune complexes and presence of circulating inflammatory cytokines. Psychiatric symptoms are common in SLE and the prevalence shows a great variability ranging […]
FRONTAL LOBE TUMORS AND THEIR SURGICAL MANAGEMENT
Volume 3 Issue 4 April, 2013 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: Neurosurgery The frontal lobe tumours by definition are intra axial arising from within the brain parenchyma (gliomas). However extrinsic tumors originating from the neighboring structures like meninges ( meningiomas) would present with similar clinical features. The gliomas can be astrocytomas, oligodendrogliomas, ependymomas,with subvarieties and also […]