López-Navas A, Ríos A, Moya-Faz FJ, Febrero B, Jiménez-Morales MI, Orteso FJ, Ros-Martínez A, Martínez-Alarcón L, Pons JA, Miras M, Ramírez P, Parrilla P. Emotional-type psychopathologic symptoms among patients with terminal chronic alcohol-induced liver cirrhosis.
Transplant Proc 2013;
44:1510-2. [PMID:
22841199 DOI:
10.1016/j.transproceed.2012.05.021]
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Abstract
INTRODUCTION
Patients with toxic substance abuse syndrome, such as alcohol abuse, have elevated psychopathologic morbidity and mortality such as mood disorders.
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the emotional-type psychopathologic symptoms in patients with alcohol-induced hepatic cirrhosis on the liver transplant waiting list.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis who were candidates for liver transplant (n = 41) completed the SA-45 questionnaire (González y Cuevas; 88), which assesses nine dimensions: somatizations, obsessive-compulsivity, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation, and psychoticism. A control group consisted of patients with chronic nonalcoholic terminal hepatopathies (n = 22).
RESULTS
Seventy-six percent of patients had some kind of psychopathologic symptom compared to 68% of the patients in the control group with other nonalcoholic etiologies (P > .05). The emotional-type clinical symptoms were: (1) somatizations: 37% of patients with alcoholic cirrhosis had this type of clinical symptoms compared to 32% of the control group (P > .05); (2) obsessive-compulsivity: 56% versus 46%, respectively (P > .05); (3) interpersonal sensitivity: 19% versus 9%, respectively (P > .05); (4) depression: 54% versus 27%, respectively (P = .045); (5) anxiety: 59% versus 46%, respectively (P > .05); (6) hostility: 29% versus 5%, respectively (P = .021); (7) phobic anxiety: 10% versus 14%, respectively (P > .05); (8) paranoid Ideation: 7% versus 5%, respectively (P > .05); (9) psychoticism: 5% versus 4%, respectively (P > .05).
CONCLUSIONS
The patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis on the liver transplant waiting list had elevated psychopathologic symptoms. Depressive- and hostile-type emotional alterations were most frequent in this type of patients.
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