The psychopathology among the offspring of schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder patients in an Egyptian sample: A comparative study.

Background: A variety of psychiatric illnesses can develop in children of parents who suffer from bipolar affective disorder.

Aims: The purpose of the research was to investigate, among the offsprings of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder type I, the prevalence of a variety of psychiatric diseases as well as a range of behavioral abnormalities.

Method: This was a cross-sectional observational comparative study.

[Aneurysm of the splenic artery arising from the superior mesenteric artery: therapeutic management].

A 36-year-old male patient presented with a 3 cm aneurysm of the proximal splenic artery, which originated from the superior mesenteric artery. A surgical management was decided. Exposure of the superior mesenteric artery by a Kocher manoeuvre allowed a safe control of the proximal superior mesenteric artery and the ligation of the aneurysm.

Risk factors and outcome in European cardiac surgery: analysis of the EuroSCORE multinational database of 19030 patients.

Objective: To assess risk factors for mortality in cardiac surgical adult patients as part of a study to develop a European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation (EuroSCORE).

Methods: From September to November 1995, information on risk factors and mortality was collected for 19030 consecutive adult patients undergoing cardiac surgery under cardiopulmonary bypass in 128 surgical centres in eight European states. Data were collected for 68 preoperative and 29 operative risk factors proven or believed to influence hospital mortality.

Is the Parsonnet's score a good predictive score of mortality in adult cardiac surgery: assessment by a French multicentre study.

Objective: Parsonnet proposed a preoperative score ("initial Parsonnet's score", which predicts the hospital mortality of adult cardiac surgery. This score was then modified by including several risk factors used in the 'SUMMIT' system ("modified Parsonnet's score", 44 variables). We wanted to assess the predictive value of these two scores in a French surgical population.

[Symptomatic myocardial bridges. Apropos of 6 cases].

Myocardial bridge is often considered to be a simple anatomical variation often observed during coronary angiography. The responsibility of this condition for myocardial ischaemia is however uncommon and the physiopathological mechanisms are not well understood. The authors report 6 cases of myocardial bridge associated with myocardial infarction of unstable angina.