Cost of diagnosing dementia in a German memory clinic.

Background: Little is known about diagnostic work-ups or the costs of diagnosing dementia in specialized care. Here, we analyzed the costs of diagnosing dementia according to specific dementia disorders.

Methods: A prospective descriptive design was used to analyze the cost of diagnosing dementia for 120 patients with suspected dementia at a German memory clinic.

[Breastfeeding after breast cancer: survey to hospital health professionals in Alsace].

Objectives: For women treated for a breast cancer and wanting childbearing, the issues of breastfeeding and its oncological safety are controversial. Therefore the aim of our study was to establish a state of knowledge of health professionals on this subject.

Methods: Two hundred and fifty questionnaires were distributed to hospital health professionals, in five Units of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Alsace.

[Skin reactions of the delayed type in cytostatically treated malignant neoplasms of childhood].

In 31 children with different cytostatic treated malignancies delayed cutaneous hypersensitivity (DCH) and their relationship to different peripheral white blood-cell counts was investigated. DCH was assessed by a multi-antigen-test device, which allows the simultaneous intracutaneous application of 7 standardized recall-antigen solutions. The grade of DCH reaction was measured by a "score", which reflects the sum of the diameters of all single positive reactions.

[Active chickenpox vaccination of children with acute leukemia or other neoplastic diseases].

26 patients with acute leukemia and other malignancies susceptible to varicella were vaccinated during maintenance chemotherapy. Vaccination was done with OKA strain of live attenuated varicella vaccine developed by Takahashi 1974. All recipients showed no adverse clinical reactions.

Active immunization against varicella of children with acute leukaemia or other malignancies on maintenance chemotherapy.

Twenty-six patients with acute leukaemia and other malignancies susceptible to varicella were vaccinated with the Oka-strain live attenuated varicella vaccine during maintenance chemotherapy. All recipients showed no adverse clinical reactions. There was no spread of vaccine virus.