Senile delirium with special reference to situational factors and recurrent delirium.
Factors initiating senile delirium were examined in 129 elderly inpatients (65 years or older). Sixty-eight patients were males and 61 females, with a mean age of 76.3 years. Delirium developed in most cases on the first two days of admission in the hospital, and the admission appeared to be a key factor precipitating delirium in about 30% of the patients. Delirium resolved or improved in 80% of the patients, but usually persisted in patients with dementia. Senile delirium tended to reappear repeatedly in patients whose episode of delirium lasted for more than 2 weeks, was associated with dementia, or had a prior history of delirium.
Kuroda
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Department of Neuropsychiatry, Okayama University Medical School, Japan.
Ishizu
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Ujike
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Otsuki
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Mitsunobu
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Chuda
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Yamamoto
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D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D003693:Delirium / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012008:Recurrence; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications