Abstract
The goal of our study was to compare mental disorders among elderly patients with chronic leukemia (CL) and dyscirculatory encephalopathy (DE). One hundred patients with CL were studied. The control group contained 85 patients with stage-I and -II DE. The Spielberger-Khanin anxiety scale and Zung depression scale were used. In patients with CL without clinical features of DE, mental disorders occurred mostly in the form of anxiety, while the combination of DE and CL led to depression. Patients with DE were characterized by anxiety and depression due to chronic cerebral ischemia.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Abdulkadyrov, K.M., Bessmel’tsev, S.S., and Rukavitsyn, O.A., Khronicheskii mieloleikoz (Chronic Myeloleukemia), St. Petersburg: Spetslit, 1998.
Volkova, S.A., Prytkova, M.V., Lyutov, S.I., and Borovkov, N.N., Clinical Manifestation of Chronic Myeloleukemia at the Diagnosing and Survival Rate of the Patients Younger and Older 60 Years According to Observations from 1980s to 2003, Gematol. Transfuziol., 2005, no. 3, pp. 15–19.
Vorob’eva, O.V., Depression as the Associated Factor of Cerebrovascular Disease, Consilium medicum, 2007, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 39–43.
Gematologiya (Hematology), Mamaev, N.N. and Ryabov, S.I., Eds., St. Petersburg: Spetslit, 2008.
Klinicheskaya onkogematologiya: Ruk. dlya vrachei (Clinical Oncohematology: Manual for Physicians), Volkova, M.A., Ed., Moscow: Meditsina, 2001.
Rukovodstvo po gematologii (Manual on Hematology), Vorob’ev, A.I., Ed., Moscow: N’yudiamed, 2003.
Suslina, Z.A., Varakin, Yu.A., and Vereshchagin, N.V., Sosudistye zabolevaniya golovnogo mozga (Vascular Diseases of the Brain), Moscow: Medpress-Inform, 2009.
Abbas Asghar-Ali, A. and Braun, U.K., Depression in Geriatric Patients, Minerva Med., 2009, vol. 100, no. 1, pp. 105–113.
O’Brien, J.T., Firbank, M.J., Krishnan, M.S., et al., White Matter Hyperintensities Rather than Lacunar Infarcts Are Associated with Depressive Symptoms in Older People: The LADIS Study Amer. J. Geriatr. Psychiat., 2006, vol. 14, no. 10, pp. 834–841.
Hattori, H., Depression in the Elderly, in Nippon Ronen Igakkai Zasshi, 2008, vol. 45, no. 5, pp. 451–461.
Newberg, A.R., Davydow, D.S., and Lee, H.B., Cerebrovascular Disease Basis of Depression: Post-Stroke Depression and Vascular Depression, Int. Rev. Psychiat., 2006, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 433–441.
Nuyen, J., Spreeuwenberg, P.M., Beekman, A.T., et al., Cerebrovascular Risk Factors and Subsequent Depression in Older General Practice Patients, J. Affect Disord., 2007, vol. 99, nos. 1–3, pp. 73–81.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Additional information
Original Russian Text © G.V. Zyrina, 2012, published in Uspekhi Gerontologii, 2012, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 334–337.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Zyrina, G.V. Comparative analysis of mental disorders among elderly with chronic leukemia and dyscirculatory encephalopathy. Adv Gerontol 3, 80–82 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079057013010165
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079057013010165