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BROMISM INDUCED BY “SAFE’ MEDICATIONS, OLD AND NEW: SOME PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Author(s) -
Martin Ian
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1967.tb21050.x
Subject(s) - repatriation , general hospital , citation , medicine , library science , psychology , family medicine , law , political science , computer science
It is obvious from these widely divergent results that the definitive study of the natural history of the cerebral vascular disease is yet to be done. Yet, from the studies available a picture of the natural history of the disease does take a shape, even though it does not come fully into sharp focus. This is seen to be a common disease, responsible for a considerable proportion of the deaths occurring in the community, and responsible for a considerably greater proportion of chronic illness. In Australia it is sllghtly more common in women than in men, and in both sexes it is a disease of the geriatric group. About 70% of patients with acute cerebral infarction recover, sutrering various degrees of infirmity from imperceptible to very severe. These survivors are very likely to suffer recurrences, which may be fatal. A proportion, which cannot be negligible, of these fatalities, will be the result of the natural occurrence of a cerebral hsemorrhage. A further substantial proportion of the survivors, which may amount to as high as 70%, will have no recurrence at all. It does not appear to matter whether the initial lesion is in the basilar or carotid system; the prognosis appears the same in either situation.