Browsing by Author "Chiliza, Bonga"

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    Consultation liaison psychiatry in Africa - essential service or unaffordable luxury?
    (2011) Vythilingum, Bavi; Chiliza, Bonga
    Consultation liaison psychiatry (CLP) - also known as psychosomatic medicine - is the psychiatric subspecialty that focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders/difficulties in complex medically ill patients. “Complex medically ill”1 are patients with active medical, neurological, obstetrical or surgical condition(s) or symptoms, who also meet one of the following criteria: • Patients with an acute or chronic medical, neurological, or surgical illness in which psychiatric morbidity is actively affecting their medical care and/or quality of life. Examples include acute or chronic psychiatric patients with HIV infection, organ transplantation, brittle diabetes, heart disease, renal failure, a terminal illness, cancer, stroke, traumatic brain injury, COPD, high-risk pregnancy, among others. • Patients with a somatoform disorder or with psychological factors affecting a physical condition (“psychosomatic condition”) • Patients with a psychiatric disorder that is the direct consequence of a primary medical condition.
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    Incidence of anxiety and depression in a predominantly HIV-infected population with severe adverse drug reactions
    (BioMed Central Ltd, 2014) Zitha, Eddy; Chiliza, Bonga; Muloiwa, Rudzani; Lehloenya, Rannakoe
    Little is known on the short-term or medium-term psychological and psychiatric sequelae following Stevens Johnson syndrome (SJS), toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) and drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS). Based on this we did a prospective study designed to assess anxiety and depression in patients with severe cutaneous adverse drug reactions by indicating higher Hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS).