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UNLABELLED: Mental health needs of children and adolescents show epidemiological changes and sometimes require psychiatric hospitalization. OBJECTIVE: to perform an epidemiological characterization of children and adolescents hospitalized for mental disorders in Hospital de Niños of Córdoba. MATERIALS AND METHODS: observational retrospective study, based on clinical reports on 144 cases hospitalized during years 2009-2010. Data was processed using frequency analysis with a significance level of 0.05. RESULTS: 54.86% of cases corresponded to women and 45.14% to men. They were aged between 6 and 16 years, showing a higher media in women 12.87. Most frequent causes for hospitalization were: suicide attempt (25%), psychomotor agitation episodes (21.53%) and psychotic episodes (15.97%). Cases admitted for suicide attempt were not frequently treated. Most relevant psychopathological diagnoses were: behavior disorder of childhood in male, and personality disorders in women. Average stay was 21.9 days, cases that needed re-admission showed a longer time. CONCLUSIONS: most frequent causes for hospitalization were related to impulsivity-aggression symptoms showing different distributions according to gender. Pathologies must be recognized, diagnosed and treated more promptly.
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Hospitalização/estatística & dados numéricos , Transtornos Mentais/epidemiologia , Transtornos Mentais/terapia , Adolescente , Argentina , Criança , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Estudos Retrospectivos , Saúde da População UrbanaRESUMO
Se realizó un estudio comparativo entre la asimilación de la D-prolina y el crecimiento en medio canavanina-glicina-azul de bromotimol (CGB) utilizados para la clasificación de las variedades de Cryptococcus neoformans. En las 86 cepas estudiadas, 100 por ciento de coincidencia entre ambos métodos, permitió afirmar que 95,34 por ciento pertenecían a la var. neoformans y el resto (4,65 por ciento) a la var. gattii. Los resultados obtenidos corroboraronn que todos los aislamientos clínicos autóctonos, hasta el presente, corresponden a la var. neoformans y permitieron sugerir el uso de la D-prolina para la evaluación inicial de las cepas, como un método alternativo y sencillo que presentó, en estas condiciones, alta coincidencia con el método de referencia (crecimiento en CGB)
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Azul de Bromotimol , Canavanina , Criptococose , Cryptococcus neoformans , ProlinaRESUMO
A comparative study was conducted between the assimilation of D-proline and the growth on canavanine-glycine-bromothymol blue (CGB) medium used for the classification of the varieties of Cryptococcus neoformans. In the 86 studied strains, 100% of coincidence between both methods allowed to affirm that 95.34% corresponded to the neoformans var. and the rest (4.65%) to the gattii var. The results obtained corroborated that all the autoctonous clinical isolations up to the present correspond to the. neoformans var. and made possible to suggest the use of D-proline for the initial evaluation of strains, as an alternative and simple method that presented under these conditions high coincidence with the reference method (growth in CGB).