Abstract

MENDEZ GOMEZ, Neyda; SILVA HERNANDEZ, Dania; MOREJON TELLEZ, Luis F.  and  RODRIGUEZ DIAZ, Ambrosio. Psychiatric manifestations in endocrine diseases. Rev Cub Med Mil [online]. 1996, vol.25, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3046.

A study was carried out in 36 patients assisting to the outpatients Endocrinology department at "Dr. Luis Díaz Soto" Military Medicine Superior Institute, after being treated by Psychiatry or Psychology specialists, without favorable outcomes for their health. The interrogatory, physical examination, and laboratory research, indicated that these patients suffered from endocrine-metabolic diseases, mainly thyroid affections, occurring in 20 patients (86 %). The more frequent psychiatric manifestations were: anxiety, depression, nervousness, asthenia, and irritability. All patients controlled themselvs when their basic endocrine disease was treated. Ninety two per cent of them were correctly diagnosed after having a psychiatric treatment for more than a year, with the consequent delay in health recuperation, innecessary expenses in drugs, and working losses. The need of going deeper into the diagnosis during the initial phase of the disease, to offer an adequate medical care, was evident.

Keywords : METABOLIC DISEASES [complications]; ENDOCRINE DISEASES [complications]; MENTAL DISORDERS [etiology].