Introduction: Delirium is a quite common entity in critically ill patients and known to have several predisposing precipitating factors

BACKGROUND There is a shortage of empirical data concerning precipitating factors for suicides in Japan. The purpose of the present study was to clarify gender differences of precipitating factors for suicide attempts in Japan. METHODS The subjects were high-lethality suicide attempters who were admitted to the Nippon Medical School Hospital Critical Care Medical Center between March 1, 2010 ...

AIM The analysis of the predisposing and precipitating factors encountered in the anamnesis of the patients hospitalized with acute pulmonary oedema, in order to establish some correlations with the evolution and prognosis. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study included 50 patients, 32 males and 18 females, admitted to the Cardiology I Clinic between 2009 and 2013, diagnosed with acute pulmonary oed...

BACKGROUND Hepatic encephalopathy is an extra hepatic complication of impaired liver function and is manifested as neuropsychiatric signs and symptoms associated with acute or chronic liver disease in the absence of other neurological disorders. There are numerous factors of hepatic encephalopathy. The main objective of this study was to analyse the precipitating factors of hepatic encephalopat...

BACKGROUND Few studies have examined factors identified as contributing to heart failure (HF) hospitalization, and, to our knowledge, none has explored their relationship to length of stay and mortality. This study evaluated the association between precipitating factors identified at the time of HF hospital admission and subsequent clinical outcomes. METHODS During 2003 to 2004, 259 US hospit...

Hyperosmolar hyperglisemic nonketotic coma (HONKC) is a rare but fatal complication of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) [1]. The most frequent precipitating factor is infections. Other precipitating factors are undiagnosed DM, drugs like corticosteroids and thiazide diuretics, diseases causing contregulatory hormon increase and poor compliance with diabetic medications [2]. Furthermore, polyuric d...