Biomedical subjects

C Hanck

Publications and source records attributed to C Hanck.

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PubMed1993

[Chronic abdominal pain and eosinophilia in a patient from Southern Italy].

Strongyloidiasis is a parasitic disease which occurs not only in tropical regions, but to some extent in the South of Europe. Diagnosis is often difficult because of a polymorphic clinical picture and low larvae excretion in the stool. A case of an Italian patient suffering from a long-standing intestinal strongyloidiasis is reported. Diagnosis was made only after a long time and after a couple of superfluous examinations. Several treatment attempts were necessary to eradicate the infection.

Abdominal Pain↗

PubMed1992

[Strongyloidiasis under immunosuppressive therapy].

Strongyloidiasis is a parasitic disease of tropical regions and to some extent of the South of Europe. In immunocompromised patients, particularly under steroid medication, infestation by this nematode may sometimes lead to life-threatening hyper-infestation. Diagnosis is often difficult because of a polymorphic clinical picture and usually low larvae excretion in the stool. The case is reported of a Yugoslavian patient who under corticosteroid therapy suffered from severe diarrhea and dehydration due to hyperinfestation by nematode larvae. Several attempts at treatment were necessary to eradicate the infestation.

Albendazole↗

PubMed1986

[Influences on neuromotor development of 5 to 10-year-old children in Basel].

In a longitudinal study concerning somatic, psychic, and social development of children in Basle, the neuromotor development at the age of 5 and 10 years was examined. Motor retardation shows significant correlations with psychic and social development. The way 5 year old children of working mothers have been taken care of showed a significant influence on motor development. A retardation in motor development of kindergarten children indicates an increased probability for further retardations in school age, too.

Child↗

PubMed1975

[Use of a rating scale in transcultural psychiatry].

The Psychopharmacological Studies Group of Fann, Dakar, considered the cultural expression of mental illness as it would help for a new definition of the nosographic frames, and inside of them, the appreciation of symptoms. This new definition would be applied "universally" if it may be considered that some symptoms are "culture-free" and others deeply marked by the discourse held by the person or by his social group. The use of valuation scales for symptomatic change during a treatment (here anti-depressive one) become harder by the undifferenciation of these two types of symptoms. Further, it may exist nosographic masks which can hide more curable substructures ; as often happens here, in masked depressions when the presented symptoms are those of acute or chronic psychotic manifestations. The efficacy of depressive treatment is then remarkable.

Acting Out↗

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Presence of plasma endotoxin is correlated with tumour necrosis factor receptor levels and disease activity in alcoholic cirrhosis.

Cytokines and plasma endotoxin were measured in a consecutive series of patients with alcoholic cirrhosis (AC). Endotoxaemia was found to be strongly correlated to increased plasma levels of functionally active tumour necrosis factor (TNF) receptors -p55 and -p75, TNF-alpha and the Child-Pugh stage of the disease. Our data support the hypothesis of the pathogenic role of lipopolysaccharide in hepatocellular damage of patients with AC.

Case-Control Studies↗

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[Depressive symptomatology and culture: a comparative study (author's transl)].

After a brief introduction reminding classical affirmations on the rarety of depression in black Africa and more recent one, recognizing its presence and frequency, the authors, using the Hamilton Rating Scale, attempt to identify the specific characters of depression in patients from Senegal and Madrid. Aside from symptoms non dependent on the cultural milieu, others are closely linked to it, such as paranoid symptoms in black Africa.

Adult↗

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Clinical forms of depression in African and Spanish cultural communities. A new comparative study.

Using the Hamilton rating scale of depression as an instrument of measure, the authors compare the relative frequency of paranoid and hypochondriac depression among 100 Spanish inpatients of the psychiatric service of "Hospital San Carlos" in Madrid (Spain) and among 100 Senegalese patients treated in the social psychiatric service of the Medical Center of Pikine. They find a definite predominancy of hypochondriac and paranoid depression in Senegalese sample. To explain their findings, they make suppositions: the use of the body as means of expression, more important among the Africans, is related to the tendency to somatize; the belief in aggression as a cause of mental illness would be the basis on which the paranoid depression develops.

Adult↗

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[Psychotic masked depression or black mask for depression].

We have used as depression criteria those of Pichot and Hassan, described during the Sint-Moritz Symposium in 1973 on masked depression. According to their clinical experience in Zaïre and Senegal, the authors consider the possibility that the "bouffée délirante" (acute psychotic reaction), frequent in black Africa, is in fact a manifestation of depression. They remind the five criterias of Pichot and Hassan, i.e.: 1 degree evidence of depression symptoms; 2 degrees a background and a particular underlying personality; 3 degrees evolutional characteristics; 4 degrees familial antecedents and hereditary factors; 5 degrees the response to antidepressive treatment. They present ten cases of acute psychosis: five from Zaïre and five from Senegal. These ten patients have been successfully treated with antidepressive drugs imipramine type, without any neuroleptic drugs; the outcome has always been a rapid remission. Some socio-cultural references are described; it permits to better comprehend the psychological frame of African people. An attempt to psychodynamically interpret the results ends the article.

Adolescent↗