Autori:
NEVSCHI Cristina, CHIRITA Vasile, CHIRITA Roxana
Cuvinte cheie:
schizophrenia, infectious disease, assessment scales, vasculitis, psychosis
Abstract:
Infectious pathology among patients with schizophrenia was a challenge for clinical studies. With
no clear answer, the inflammatory theory in schizophrenia process brings new particularities that lead to
the idea that inflammation may even be a trigger factor in the future development of schizophrenia. The
theory proposes that abnormalities of central nervous system metabolism arise because modulated
inflammatory reactions damage the microvascular system of the brain of schizophrenia patients in
reaction to environmental agents, including infections and hypoxia (1). Inflammatory process causes
psychosis through secondary vasculitis. Inflammatory vasculitis theory has implications in epidemiological,
genetic, neuroimagistic and neuropathology area (2). The purpose of this paper is the impact of
somatic comorbidities as infection pathology on the patient’s clinical status measured by scales assessing
schizophrenia such as PANSS, CGI-S, AIMS and GAF. The results show clinical changes in terms of
general psychopathology and psychotic form, with neurological complications as tardive diskinesia
when inflammatory process occurs.
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