[Simultaneous use of contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy in women receiving psychoactive drugs. From theory to integral health practice].

Sexuality in people with mental disorders is a topic usually tinged with prejudice and stigma. Women with severe mental disorders are more exposed to suffer sexually transmitted diseases, becoming victims of gender violence and being involved with unintended pregnancies. In adults and adolescents, sexual intercourse under the influence of alcohol or other drugs, or during worsening or exacerbation of baseline symptoms or condition, are often unplanned, unprotected, with casual partners from high risk groups, without contraceptive methods and with less capacity to agree or deny safe sexual practices.

[Length of psychiatric hospitalizations: a clinical and socio-demographic characterization].

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the clinical, socio-demographic, and therapeutic variables associated with the length of hospitalization in a psychiatric emergency hospital in Buenos Aires City.

Method: The present retrospective analytical study included 350 consecutively admitted patients aged 18-65, from June 2013 until December 2017 in a public psychiatric hospital in Buenos Aires City. Data collected included socio-demographic, clinical and discharge conditions.

[Postpartum psychiatric disorders].

The postpartum period represents a very particular time in women's life, the beginning of a new bond, the maternity. As many times, beginnings are such turbulent, intense. In this period the women suffers deep changes in their hormonal status, with its body and changes and affective oscillations.

[How do Argentinean psychiatrists treat bipolar depression?].

We show the results of a survey on bipolar depression treatment using a sample of 359 argentine psychiatrists in the context of The National Psychiatry Congress that took place in the City of Buenos Aires, between September 26th and 29th, 2007. The objective was to study the attendant psychiatrists' prescribing habits in the treatment of bipolar depression. The discussion is based on the comparison between the answers and the recommendations taken from the main consensus, guidelines and from articles published by experts.

[Haematological adverse effects caused by psychiatric drugs].

Almost all clases of psychiatric drugs (typical and atypical antipsychotics, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, benzodiazepines) have been reported as possible causes of haematological toxicity. This is a review of the literature in which different clinical situations involving red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets and impaired coagulation are detailed and the drugs more frequently involved are listed. The haematological adverse reactions detailed here include: aplastic anemia, haemolitic anemia, leukopenia, agranulocytosis, leukocytosis, eosinophilia, thrombocytosis, thrombocytopenia, disordered platelet function and impaired coagulation.

[How do Argentinean psychiatrists treat depression?].

Objective: The objective of this study was to examine the prescribing practices of Argentinean psychiatrists in the treatment of major depression and to observe similarities and/or differences with some consensus or treatment guidelines.

Methodology: Four hundred two psychiatrists were surveyed during a specialty meeting in October 2005.

Results: A total of 88.

[Effects of psychiatric drugs on the fetus and newborn children. Consequences of the treatment of psychiatric disorders during pregnancy and lactation].

The management of mental disorders during pregnancy and the postpartum period confronts the psychiatrist to a complex clinical situation. The cero risk utopia should be changed for a more realistic approach which considers the risks of having a conservative conduct (assuming the consequences of the untreated mental disorders) or making a psychopharmacological intervention knowing the expectable effects on the fetus and the offspring. The antidepressants and the conventional antipsychotics seem to be safe drugs in the first trimester of pregnancy.