September 15, 2024 by University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainTreatment with a combination of haloperidol and lorazepam reduced symptoms of agitated delirium, a common end-of-life condition for patients with advanced cancers, compared with haloperidol alone, according to a new study led by researchers at The University of Texas MD...
August 29, 2024 by Juntendo University Research Promotion Center Delirium increases the risks of falls and dementia among older adults and the burden on healthcare providers. Researchers assess whether the sleep-promoting medication suvorexant could reduce delirium in older adults since insomnia is a major risk factor for delirium. Credit: Professor Kotaro Hatta from Juntendo University...
Delirium Improving Symptoms of Chronic Schizophrenia in Elderly: A Case SeriesClinical Medical Reviews and Case Reports Prerak Kumar1*, Shailendra Mohan Tripathi2, Richa Shukla1 and Roshni Basu1 1Senior Resident, Department of Geriatric Mental Health, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India 2Additional Professor, Department of Geriatric Mental Health, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh,...
by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Oophorectomy (OVX) and urinary tract infection (UTI)-mediated changes in cleaved caspase-3 (CC3). (A) A schematic of design of a preliminary experiment examining the effects of OVX, UTI, and OVX + UTI on levels of cortical and hippocampal CC3. (B) Representative regions of interest (ROIs) in the frontal cortex and hippocampus. (C) Representative staining...
More than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers are revealing the many devastating consequences that patients can face both during and after hospitalization. A new study of nearly 150 patients hospitalized for COVID at the beginning of the pandemic found that 73% had delirium, a serious disturbance in mental state wherein a patient is...
By Carrie Arnold, Nature magazine on February 25, 2021 Credit: Fatinha Ramos In her job as a physician at the Boston Medical Center in Massachusetts, Sondra Crosby treated some of the first people in her region to get COVID-19. So when she began feeling sick in April, Crosby wasn’t surprised to learn that she, too, had been infected. At...
KING’S COLLEGE LONDON A new analysis of data from researchers at King’s College London using information from the COVID Symptom Study app and patients admitted to St Thomas’ Hospital in London, has shown that delirium – a state of acute confusion associated with a higher risk of serious illness and death – is a key...
