Objective: To determine whether changes in serum galectin-3 (gal-3) concentrations in schizophrenia patients have etiopathogenetic importance. Since very little research has assessed the connection between galectins and schizophrenia, we wanted to examine alterations in the inflammatory marker gal-3 in s...
Objective To describe the case of a patient with schizophrenia on clozapine treatment who had an episode of heat stroke. Case description During a heat wave in January and February 2014, a patient with schizophrenia who was on treatment with clozapine was initially referred for differential diagnose bet...
Objective: To report the rare development of manic symptoms in a patient with schizophrenia and discuss its differential diagnosis. Case description: Diagnostic criteria were based on the International Classification of Diseases, 10th edition (ICD-10). A 63-year-old female (diagnosed with schizophrenia s...
Alteraciones en la forma y tamano de las plaquetas fueron encontradas en 6 de 9 pacientes esquizofrenicos con la aparicion de grandes cisternas las que contenian particulas con igual morfologia a las particulas virales descritas en trabajos anteriores con tecnicas inmuno-electromicroscopicas en el sistem...
Se realiza un estudio ultraestructurall comparativo entre los hallazgos obtenidos en la sangre periferica de pacientes esquizofrenicos y los observados en un estudio similar en la sangre de un nino con autismo infantil. La presencia de vacuolizacion en las plaquetas fue un elemento comun aunque con carac...
Muestras de sangre periférica de 6 pacientes psicóticos en estado crítico (2 maníaco-depresivos y 4 esquizofrénicos paranoides) conforme al cirterio DSM-IV y 6 pacientes controles, fueron estudiados mediante técnicas de microscopía electrónica convencional. En el grupo de pacientes psicoticos, en...
