title: [Somatic and psychiatric disorders in alcohol-addicted patients treated in a detoxification unit].
abstract: The aim of the presented study was the assessment of somatic and psychiatric disorders in alcohol addicted patients, treated in the Department of Clinical Toxicology detoxification unit in Kraków in 2002 year. The total number of 443 patients (377 men and 66 women) were considered for the research. More than 50% patients were hospitalized repeatedly (2 or more times) due to alcohol problems. Medical history as well as detail medical examination and diagnostic evaluation revealed the concomitance with alcohol disease different somatic illnesses and psychiatric disorders. In 194 patients (43.8%) the alcoholic liver damage was diagnosed, frequently (in 5.2% patients) with chronic pancreatitis. Only 22 patients (5%) were infected with hepatitis virus type B. Diabetes type 2 and different cardiovascular disorders were present in almost one third of patients. In the past 55 patients (12.4%) have had severe head trauma, and 51 (11.3%) were treated because multiorgan trauma. Psychiatric examination revealed in 102 patients (23%) affective disorders, and in 92 (20.7%) personality disturbances. The presented data should be a ground for discussion about treatment model alcohol dependency in Poland.
authors.affiliation: Klinika Toksykologii KMPiChS, Collegium Medicum, Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego w Krakowie.
authors.forename: Stanisław
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kroch
authors.forename: Aleksandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kamenczak
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chrostek Maj
authors.forename: Andrzej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Polewka
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology*; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D019694:Hepatitis B, Chronic / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008108:Liver Diseases, Alcoholic / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D019512:Pancreatitis, Alcoholic / Q000453:epidemiology; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology