Corrigendum: Dangers of food poisoning in psychiatric patients.

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ICD-11 Paraphilic Disorders: A South African Analysis of Its Utility in the Medico-Legal Context.

Background: In an effort to improve the clinical utility of the ICD-10, the WHO Working Group on the Classification of Sexual Disorders and Sexual Health recommended a new classification of Paraphilic Disorders in the ICD-11 to replace the ICD-10 section on Disorders of Sexual Preference. The proposed classification may have different implications for different countries.

Aim: To examine South African national laws and policies, within which Paraphilic Disorders are encountered, and to assess the implications of the new classification.

Dangers of food poisoning in psychiatric patients.

food poisoning can be fatal in patients with chronic constipation. We report the investigation and management of a probable outbreak of food poisoning among psychiatric patients in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2013.

Mental health and the law: a South African perspective.

Mental health law in South Africa has been dominated in recent times by the Mental Health Care Act 2002. This paper provides selective insights into specific aspects of that Act and highlights its impact on clinical practice within a broad clinical setting and in so doing suggests areas for review and revision.

Contribution of ethnic group and socioeconomic status to degree of disability in rheumatoid arthritis in Chilean patients.

The aim of this study was to estimate the contributions of ethnic group and socioeconomic status as social determinants related to disability and disease activity in Chilean Mapuche and non-Mapuche patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Descriptive cross-sectional study with a stratified hospital-based sample of 189 patients in treatment with disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs. We assessed disability as categorical variable with the Health Assessment Questionnaire, disease activity with the Disease Activity Score instrument, and socioeconomic status with a standard questionnaire used by the Chilean government.

Forensic telepsychiatry: a possible solution for South Africa?

Objective: South Africa has a shortage of facilities and psychiatrists to assess adjudicative competence of prisoners awaiting assessment under sections 77 to 79 of the Criminal Procedures Act of 1977. Various solutions have been proposed by the Department of Health. The recent linking of a Magistrate's court and a prison by videoconferencing offers the opportunity to implement a forensic telepsychiatry service.

Patients with severe mental illness: a new approach to testing for HIV.

Background: The prevalence of HIV infection in South Africa is approaching 20% of young adults. In severely mentally ill people it is probably higher. Testing for infection is subject to stringent ethical principles.

Phenotypic characterization and genealogical tracing in an Afrikaner schizophrenia database.

Founder populations hold tremendous promise for mapping genes for complex traits, as they offer less genetic and environmental heterogeneity and greater potential for genealogical research. Not all founder populations are equally valuable, however. The Afrikaner population meets several criteria that make it an ideal population for mapping complex traits, including founding by a small number of initial founders that likely allowed for a relatively restricted set of mutations and a large current population size that allows identification of a sufficient number of cases.

A comparison of risk factors for habitual violence in pre-trial subjects.

Objective: Pre-trial referrals to the Valkenberg Hospital forensic unit over a 6-month period were studied. Habitually violent offenders were compared with those with no history of violence.

Methods: Risk factors known to be associated with violent behaviour were elicited, i.

[Rheumatoid arthritis among mapuche aborigines. A 16 years experience in the IX Region of the Chile].

Background: Mapuche, Chilean natives, represent approximately 9.8% of Chilean population and in the IX region of the country, they account for 18.4% of population over 15 years old.

Defendants are clueless--the 30-day psychiatric observation.

Objective: To investigate the understanding and expectations of defendants referred to Valkenberg Hospital for 30-day observation.

Design: Defendants referred for 30 days of psychiatric assessment were surveyed by means of a semi-structured interview within 3 days of admission.

Participants: One hundred consecutive referrals from the Western, Northern and Eastern Cape were considered; 88 were eventually entered into the study.

Violence, sensation seeking, and impulsivity in schizophrenics found unfit to stand trial.

Many studies have confirmed an association between violent behavior, impulsivity, and sensation seeking in nonpsychotic subjects. Schizophrenic patients (n = 49) who had been found unfit to stand trial were investigated for violence, according to index offenses and longitudinal histories (before and after admission) for violence. Those charged with violent offenses were significantly more often married with children, and were equally likely to direct their assaultiveness to strangers, acquaintances, and family members.

[Anticardiolipin antibodies in rheumatic autoimmune diseases. Correlation with clinical and laboratory findings].

The prevalence of anticardiolipin antibodies (ACA) was determined using an Elisa method in sera of 60 patients with autoimmune diseases. ACA were correlated with clinical manifestations of the antiphospholipid syndrome and other serological markers of autoimmunity. Sixty three percent of sera had ACA IgG (+) and 50% ACA IgM (+).

Radiologic progression during intramuscular methotrexate treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.

The radiographic evolution of joint lesions in 41 patients with severe and longstanding rheumatoid arthritis (RA) (mean duration: 12.9 years) treated with methotrexate (MTX) for more than 24 months (mean 31.2 months) was studied in a double blind manner by 2 rheumatologists using Larsen's score.

Survey of certification practices for patients admitted to Sterkfontein Hospital.

The involuntary hospitalisation of psychiatric patients continues to be a controversial issue. All patients certified and admitted to Sterkfontein Hospital under Sections 9 and 12 of the Mental Health Act, No. 18 of 1973, over a 4-week period were surveyed.