Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to C K Berenson.
Symptom overlap, comorbidity, disagreement among informants, and the impact of development complicate psychiatric diagnoses in the adolescent patient. This review of frequently missed diagnoses includes anxiety disorders, ADD without hyperactivity, early-onset bipolar disorder, syndromes associated with trauma, and substance abuse.
This report details the implantation of a total artificial heart into a human being who survived for 112 days. Included are the criteria for candidate selection, the preoperative psychiatric evaluation, and the description of operative and postoperative complications in the context of the research subject's mental status over the period of his survival. Postmortem pathologic findings are reviewed. We summarize pertinent literature, including disordered behavior, postcardiotomy, and neuropsychiatric syndromes in hepatic, renal, and cardiac transplant patients.