Archives mensuelles: November 2017
Depression: misleading or masked forms
A depressive state in which somatic phenomena dominate, in such a way as to completely camouflage the depressive background. Called also latent depression, occult depression...
Depression
The overall prevalence for depressive disorders is estimated at about 10% of the general population with an annual incidence of 3% in men and...
Undernutrition
Undernutrition is a metabolic situation in which energy needs are not covered due to lack of intake, increased needs or both.Vitamin deficiencies can be...
Dementia and insane syndrome
It is about the global and progressive loss of the intellectual functions acquired previously, without disturbances of the vigilance.
CLINIC:
It is necessary to know how...
Muscle deficit
Muscular diseases are conditions secondary to the pathology of the muscle or the neuromuscular junction. Diagnosis is based on electrophysiological exploration, biology and histological examination...
Cruralgia
Pain in the crural area should alert the clinician. Its definition is precise but its presentation often requires a discussion of the differential and etiological...
Convulsif seizure
Faced with a convulsive crisis, the medical approach differs depending on the context. In the first place, we will try to find out if the...
Chronic constipation
The first difficulty is to be clarified this symptom, where between a part of subjectivity. Neither the size, nor the shape, nor the weight of...
Confusion of the elderly
It is an acute state, transient, reversible, early onset, the installation of disorders evolving for a few hours or a few days. He associates obnubilation,...
Confusion (confusional states of the adult)
Confounding is the clinical expression of temporary acute cerebral decompensation. It results in a global, fluctuating and reversible alteration of cognitive functions. Medical emergency, it comes...
