title: Case reports of unexpected suicides in patients within six months after stroke.
abstract: Suicide after stroke is a grievous occurrence. Since the majority of cases under study had shown signs of recovery from stroke, persons surrounding these patients were severely shocked by these suicides. Six patients who attempted suicide within six months after stroke were investigated to determine factors following stroke that relate to suicide in order to prevent future post-stroke suicides. Clinical findings in these six cases were retrospectively analyzed in collaboration with stroke neurologists and coworkers caring for these patients. Four of six patients had sustained a recent infarction extending from the temporal cortex to the parietal cortex. Four of six patients showed depression, and five of six patients showed moderate disability after stroke. Physicians should carefully observe patients with infarction extending from the temporal cortex to the parietal cortex, depression and moderate disability, in order to prevent suicidal behavior.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Senri Chuou Hospital, Shinsenri-higashi-machi 1-4-3, Toyonaka-City, Osaka, 560-0082, Japan. katayama-tky@umin.ac.jp
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Katayama
authors.forename: Hiroaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Naritomi
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Oomura
authors.forename: Masaru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nukata
authors.forename: Shiro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: Ken
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Araki
authors.forename: Hiroki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: Makoto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kinoshita
authors.forename: Taiji
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: Atsuko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shimode
authors.forename: Yohei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takenobu
authors.forename: Manabu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Ryuzo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fukunaga
authors.forename: Akihiko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Taguchi
authors.forename: Akihiro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hazama
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Inglin
authors.forename: Derk W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Krieger
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003863:Depression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D020521:Stroke / Q000523:psychology; D013405:Suicide; D013406:Suicide, Attempted