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Antropología Cultural , Cuerpo Humano , Higiene , Nariz , Olfato , Condiciones Sociales , Antropología Cultural/educación , Antropología Cultural/historia , Ambiente , Historia del Siglo XV , Historia del Siglo XVI , Historia del Siglo XVII , Historia del Siglo XVIII , Historia del Siglo XIX , Historia del Siglo XX , Historia del Siglo XXI , Historia Medieval , Características Humanas , Higiene/educación , Higiene/historia , Odorantes , Órganos de los Sentidos , Condiciones Sociales/historiaRESUMEN
Between 1978 and 1982, 88 patients were treated with radiotherapy at the University of the Witwatersrand Hospitals for carcinoma of the bladder. They were followed up for evidence of cystitis (i.e. frequency, urgency, nocturia, dysuria, haematuria). Those with persistent symptoms underwent cystoscopy. Biopsies were taken of areas suspicious of residual or recurrent tumour. The total incidence of late bladder complications was 11 (12,5%). Of these 11 patients, 6 had persistent or recurrent tumour. The implications of this are discussed.
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Cistitis/etiología , Traumatismos por Radiación/etiología , Neoplasias de la Vejiga Urinaria/radioterapia , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Radioterapia/efectos adversosRESUMEN
Six hundred fifty-one psychiatric consultations performed during a one-year period were reviewed retrospectively. Cognitive impairment was present in 54 per cent and depression in 27 per cent of the elderly patients in the population studied. A second study of the point prevalence of cognitive and emotional disorders in the hospital was carried out using the Mini-Mental State Exam and the General Health Questionnaire. Emotional disorders had similar prevalences in all age groups but cognitive disorders were more common in the elderly. Twenty-one per cent of consultations were done on patients over the age of 60, although elderly patients occupied 28.5 per cent of hospital beds. Thus, elderly patients were less often referred for psychiatric consultation than younger patients, although the incidence of psychiatric disorders increases with age.