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Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Characteristics of patients with organic brain syndromes : A cross-sectional 2-year follow-up study in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. | BioMed Central Annals of General Psychiatry Primary research Open Access Characteristics of patients with organic brain syndromes A cross-sectional 2-year follow-up study in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Prem K Chandrasekaran 1 Stephen T Jambunathan2 and Nor Z Zainal2 Address 1NeuroBehavioural Medicine Penang Adventist Hospital Penang Malaysia and 2Department of Psychological Medicine University of Malaya Medical Centre Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Email Prem K Chandrasekaran - premkumar@pah.com.my Stephen T Jambunathan - stephen@um.edu.my Nor Z Zainal - zuraida@ummc.edu.my Corresponding author Published 15 April 2005 Received 11 February 2004 Annals of General Psychiatry 2005 4 9 doi 10.1186 1744-859X-4-9 Accepted 15 April 2005 This article is available from http www.annals-general-psychiatry.cOm content 4 1 9 2005 Chandrasekaran et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http creativecommons.org licenses by 2.0 which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Organic Brain Syndromes OBS are often missed in clinical practice. Determining their varied presentations may help in earlier detection better management and assessing prognosis and outcome. We described the in-patient referrals of patients suffering from the psychiatric effects of organic states and compared the symptomatology and mortality between those with the Acute and Chronic varieties. Methods 59 patients referred to our Consultation-Liaison C-L Psychiatry services and given a clinical diagnosis of OBS were selected over a 6-month period. Psychiatric and cognitive abnormalities and treatment regimes were recorded and fatality rates determined. Information regarding their condition 24 months after their index hospitalization was recorded. All data were entered into a proforma and analyzed after exclusion. Results The mean duration of
