Migraine and epilepsy account for more than 40% of neurology outpatients are leading causes disability. They often co-exist can be confused, because shared clinical features. The borderlands links between migraine have fascinated neurologists centuries, unresolved questions remain. Greater understanding the relationship may give insight into mechanisms. It is already clear that treating co-exis...

PURPOSE Studies have suggested a potential role of patient's co-morbidity in determining the survival outcomes of breast cancer. In this study, we examined the long-term oncologic outcomes in breast cancer patients who underwent curative surgery according to their pre-existing comorbid conditions and analyzed the association between the co-morbidity and the use of adjuvant therapies. METHODS ...

objective: this study aimed to detail the phenomenology and psychiatric comorbidities in patients with pathologic skin picking (psp). method: forty five subjects (30% males) with psp (mean s.d. =33.210.9) were assessed. subjects were assessed for psychiatric co morbidity using general health questionnaire (ghq). the yale-brown obsessive compulsive scale (y-bocs) was used to assess obsessive com...

anxiety and depression could reduce the quality of life, and exacerbate physical symptoms and even mortality amongst patients with coronary heart disease (chd). the aim of this study was to investigate the incidence of anxiety and depression in patients with acute chd. in a period from march to december 2008, the views of 108 chd patients, hospitalized in a tertiary hospital, were solicited usi...

The present study evaluated activity and toxicity of modulated doses of gemcitabine associated to oxaliplatin in patients with secondary CIRS and with locally advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma (LAPC) and metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma (MPC). Since January 2006, untreated LAPC and MPC patients have been assessed with ADL, IADL, CIRS to modulate chemotherapy dosages according to co-morbidi...

In this issue of Rheumatology, Stolwijk et al. [1] evaluate the validity of the self-administered co-morbidity questionnaire (SCQ) developed with the aim of assessing co-morbidity in AS. The article could not have a better justification and timing. Rheumatologists have witnessed remarkable advances in the last decade regarding the management of rheumatic diseases, mainly in the field of measure...

background: elder abuse and neglect (ean) comprises emotional, financial, physical, and sexual abuse, neglect by other individuals, and self-neglect. elder abuse and neglect in seniors with psychiatric morbidity was not monitored in the czech republic at all, despite the literature shows mental morbidity as one of the important risk factor for developing elder abuse and neglect. methods: we des...

BACKGROUND Lithuanian primary health care (PHC) is undergoing changes from the systems prevalent under the Soviet Union, which ensured free access to specialised health care. Currently four different PHC models work in parallel, which offers the opportunity to study their respective effect on referral rates. Our aim was to investigate whether there were differences in referrals rates from diffe...

BACKGROUND Although health-related quality of life (HRQoL) recovers after surgery for oesophageal cancer in most long-term survivors, one in seven patients experiences a deterioration in HRQoL for reasons yet unknown. The aim of this study was to assess whether co-morbidities diagnosed after surgery influence recovery of HRQoL. METHODS Patients who underwent surgery for cancer of the oesophag...

atls or advanced trauma life support and the family training courses like atcn and phts, are training courses planning for medical staff who are involved in trauma care to mange injured  people in proper way to save lives and reduce the morbidity significantly. from the scene of accident ems who passed phtls for pre hospital trauma care to emergency rooms in hospital doctors and nurses could pe...