Secondary demantia case following suicide attempted by hanging: A follow-up for one year Ası ile intihar girişimi sonrası gelişen ikincil demans olgusu: Bir yıllık izleme
Anadolu Psikiyatri Dergisi, cilt.12, sa.4, ss.304-306, 2011 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus, TRDizin)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 12 Sayı: 4
- Basım Tarihi: 2011
- Dergi Adı: Anadolu Psikiyatri Dergisi
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.304-306
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Hypoxic encephalopathy, Morbidity, Suicide
- Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Hanging is one of the methods that have the highest mortality rate among other suicide attempts. In the unsuccessful hanging attempts morbidity is usually severe. As a result of hanging, the cerebral blood flow is interrupted due to the acute occlusion of the vertebral arteries and, hypoxic encephalopathy develops due to the reduction in oxygen and glucose support of the brain parenchyma. Several psychiatric signs, primarily cognitive disorders, reveal with respect to the time of hypoxia and to the affected brain regions. In this article, we aimed to discuss a case with defect in the cognitive area have been developed after a suicide attempt by hanging and who did not abnormal brain imaging findings until the eighth month.