humoral immune variation in drug addicts

Cerebral edema in drug addicts.

BACKGROUND/AIM The effect of drugs leaves permanent consequences on the brain, organic in type, followed by numerous manifestations, and it significantly affects the development of mental dysfunctions. The clinicians are often given a task to estimate a patient's personality during treatment or during experts estimate of a drug addict. The aim of this research was to determine the differences, ...

Viral hepatitis in drug addicts.

Viral hepatitis is an important and frequent complication of drug addiction. The discovery of the Australia antigen and its association with serum hepatitis has provided a number of specific serological tests which may be used for the diagnosis of at least a proportion of patients with hepatitis and also for the detection of carriers of the hepatitis virus. These tests might now be used to stud...

Cognitive Impairments in Drug Addicts

Recent work exploring the effects of abusing alcohol, central stimulants, and opiates on the central nervous system (CNS) have demonstrated a variety of adverse effects related to mental health. In several laboratories and clinics substantial damages of brain function are seen to result from these drugs. Among the harmful effects of the abusing drugs on brain are those contributing to accelerat...

Suicidal behavior among drug addicts.

Objective: to describe the profi le of drug addicts attended in a mental health service, the frequency of suicidal behavior among the participants and the associations between these two problems. Method: an exploratory, retrospective and descriptive study based on a quantitative approach, and data collected from medical records of patients with F10-F19 diagnoses according to the ICD-10 treated ...

Asymptomatic pulmonary atelectasis in drug addicts.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa endocarditis in drug addicts.

Bacterial endocarditis is a serious medical complication of heroin addiction and should be suspected in any addict with a fever and positive blood cultures. However, gram-negative bacteria, and particularly Pseudomonas aeruginosa, are uncommon causes of bacterial endocarditis and their presence in a blood culture may be dismissed as a contaminant or as originating from another site. Therefore, ...