Pigmented paravenous retinochoroidal atrophy. A literature review supported by seven cases.

Seven patients (4 men and 3 women, ranging in age from 27 to 64 years) with pigmented paravenous retinochoroidal atrophy, a rare disorder of unknown origin, were studied. The mean follow-up time was 18.5 months.

Public attitudes to schizophrenia in rural Turkey.

Background: The aim of this study was to determine the public's attitudes and their correlates towards patients with schizophrenia in rural areas.

Methods: The study was carried out in a village near Manisa City, Turkey. Two hundred and eight subjects completed the public survey form which consists of ten items screening demographic and health status and 32 items rating attitudes towards schizophrenia.

Aprotinin reduces ischemia-reperfusion injury in the retina of guinea pigs.

Purpose: The aim of this study was investigate the role of aprotinin on retinal lipid peroxidation and histopathological changes during ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) of guinea pigs.

Methods: Three groups of seven pigmented guinea pigs each were formed: a control (group 1), ischemia/saline (group 2) and ischemia/aprotinin (group 3). One eye of each animal was selected for histopathological evaluation and the other for biochemical assay.

Relationship of sexuality with psychological and hormonal features in the menopausal period.

Women may experience some mental and sexual problems between the ages of 40 years and 60 years due to serious changes in the hormonal system. The aim of this study was to examine the relationships between the changes in sex hormones, sexual behaviours, depression and anxiety levels of women who were in either the premenopausal, perimenopausal or postmenopausal period. The subjects of this cross-sectional study consisted of 324 women who attended the Gynaecology and Obstetrics Out-Patient Ward of Celal Bayar University Hospital.

[The public attitudes towards schizophrenia in a rural area in Turkey].

Objective: To determine the public's attitude about schizophrenia and its related factors in a rural population.

Methods: This study was carried out in a village of Manisa. Of the 245 subjects which met the inclusion criteria, 230 subjects were reached and 208 of them constituted the sample of this study.

[Distinguishing depressive from nondepressive patients in schizophrenia in terms of symptomatology].

Objective: Schizophrenia is a syndrome with five dimensions and it contains positive symptoms, negative symptoms, disorganization, depression, and cognitive symptoms. Depression which is one of these dimensions can be seen with every dimension and in every phase of schizophrenia. In this study our aim was to examine the overlapping features and the discriminating symptoms of depression comorbid with schizophrenia.

Depression and anxiety in hyperthyroidism.

Background: Our objective was to determine symptomatology of depression and anxiety in patients with untreated hyperthyroidism and compare with euthyroid patients.

Methods: Thirty-two patients with hyperthyroidism (high free T3 and free T4, and suppressed TSH) and 30 euthyroid (normal free T3, free T4, and TSH) controls attending the Endocrinology Out-Patient Department at Celal Bayar University Hospital in Manisa, Turkey were included in the study. Hormonal screening was performed by immunoassay and hemagglutination method.

Psychiatric morbidity and depressive symptomatology in patients with permanent pacemakers.

Implantation of a permanent pacemaker requires a psychological effort on the patient's part for adaptation in the acute term, and chronically, it restricts activities of the patient and may cause some psychiatric disturbances. To investigate psychiatric morbidity and depressive symptomatology of the patients with permanent pacemakers, 84 pacemaker patients were diagnosed using the DSM-III-R criteria and depressive symptoms were determined by modified Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (mHDRS). Sixteen (19.