title: [Mental disorders in patients admitted for cataract surgery].
abstract: An aim of the present study was to clinically evaluate mental changes in patients admitted for extracapsular cataract extraction. Eighty patients (27 male and 53 female), mean age 72,2+/-7,2 years, were studied. A clinical-psychopathological examination was conducted. Type of disease attitude, Eysenck neuroticism and psychoticism scores, Taylor anxiety and Beck depression levels mere studied before and after the surgery. Most of patients - 56 (70%) had mental disorders in the pre-surgery period. They were stratified into 3 groups by syndromes. Twenty-seven patients (33,7%) had asthenic-depressive disorders, 16 (20%) - anxiety-phobic disorders and 13 (16,2%) - anxiety-depressive disorders. These disorders disappeared after the surgery in most patients. The greater stability of psychopathological appearances was characteristic of patients with anxiety-depressive symptoms. These patients also demonstrated personality changes (the higher level of neuroticism).
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Marilov
authors.forename: O M
authors.initials: OM
authors.lastname: Shorikhina
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002387:Cataract Extraction / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D015995:Prevalence; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology