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Psychiatric issues in renal failure and dialysis

This article aims to bring to the fore, issues regarding the interface of psychiatry and renal failure. Depression, anxiety, suicide and delirium are common complications observed in patients with renal failure. Pharmacological management of these problems need stringent monitoring on part of the ps...

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Autor principal: De Sousa, A.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2813124/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20142902
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-4065.42337
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description This article aims to bring to the fore, issues regarding the interface of psychiatry and renal failure. Depression, anxiety, suicide and delirium are common complications observed in patients with renal failure. Pharmacological management of these problems need stringent monitoring on part of the psychiatrist. This article examines the various complications that may be observed in patients with renal failure while discussing treatment approaches and also emphasizing the need for interdisciplinary team work in improving the quality of life of patients with renal failure and those on dialysis.
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spelling pubmed-28131242010-02-08 Psychiatric issues in renal failure and dialysis De Sousa, A. Indian J Nephrol Review Article This article aims to bring to the fore, issues regarding the interface of psychiatry and renal failure. Depression, anxiety, suicide and delirium are common complications observed in patients with renal failure. Pharmacological management of these problems need stringent monitoring on part of the psychiatrist. This article examines the various complications that may be observed in patients with renal failure while discussing treatment approaches and also emphasizing the need for interdisciplinary team work in improving the quality of life of patients with renal failure and those on dialysis. Medknow Publications 2008-04 /pmc/articles/PMC2813124/ /pubmed/20142902 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-4065.42337 Text en © Indian Journal of Nephrology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Psychiatric issues in renal failure and dialysis
title Psychiatric issues in renal failure and dialysis
title_full Psychiatric issues in renal failure and dialysis
title_fullStr Psychiatric issues in renal failure and dialysis
title_full_unstemmed Psychiatric issues in renal failure and dialysis
title_short Psychiatric issues in renal failure and dialysis
title_sort psychiatric issues in renal failure and dialysis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2813124/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20142902
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-4065.42337
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