Screening for anxiety disorders in patients with coronary artery diseaseAdomas Bunevicius
Behavioral Medicine Institute, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Palanga, Lithuania
Health Qual Life Outcomes 11:37. 2013
..In the present study we evaluated the prevalence of anxiety disorders in patients with CAD and diagnostic utility of self-rating scales for screening of anxiety disorders...
Evaluation of health-related quality of life in Lithuanian brain tumor patients using the EORTC brain cancer moduleAdomas Bunevicius
Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Eiveniu 2, 50028 Kaunas, Lithuania
Medicina (Kaunas) 48:588-94. 2012
..CONCLUSIONS. The Lithuanian version of the EORTC-QLQ-BN20 scale has acceptable psychometric properties and can be reliably used for the assessment of HRQoL in brain tumor patients...
Evaluation of depressive symptoms in patients with coronary artery disease using the Montgomery Åsberg Depression Rating ScaleAdomas Bunevicius
Behavioral Medicine Institute, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Palanga, Lithuania
Int Clin Psychopharmacol 27:249-55. 2012
..The association between MADRS and self-rating depression scores is moderate to strong...
- Screening for depression and anxiety disorders in primary care patients
Adomas Bunevicius
Faculty of Medicine, Kaunas University of Medicine, Kaunas, Lithuania
Depress Anxiety 24:455-60. 2007
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- Symptoms of anxiety and depression in medical students and in humanities students: relationship with big-five personality dimensions and vulnerability to stress
Adomas Bunevicius
Institute of the Psychophysiology and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, Kaunas University of Medicine, Lithuania
Int J Soc Psychiatry 54:494-501. 2008
..To assess the relationship between symptoms of anxiety, symptoms of depression and Big-Five personality dimensions and vulnerability to stress in medical students...
- Specific fatigue-related items in self-rating depression scales do not bias an association between depression and fatigue in patients with coronary artery disease
Adomas Bunevicius
Institute of Psychophysiology and Rehabilitation, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Palanga, Lithuania
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 33:527-9. 2011
..We evaluated if specific fatigue-related questions in self-reported instruments of depression bias an association between fatigue and depression in CAD patients...
- Fatigue in patients with coronary artery disease: association with thyroid axis hormones and cortisol
Adomas Bunevicius
Behavioral Medicine Institute, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Palanga, Lithuania
Psychosom Med 74:848-53. 2012
..In people with coronary artery disease, the association between endocrine measures and fatigue is not well understood. We evaluated possible associations of fatigue and exercise capacity with function of adrenal axis and thyroid axis...
- Hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis function in women with a menstrually related mood disorder: association with histories of sexual abuse
Adomas Bunevicius
Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7175, USA
Psychosom Med 74:810-6. 2012
..In the present study, we sought to extend that work by examining the association of an SA history with HPT-axis disturbance in both women with MRMD and women without MRMD...
- Diagnostic accuracy of self-rating scales for screening of depression in coronary artery disease patients
Adomas Bunevicius
Institute of Psychophysiology and Rehabilitation, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Palanga, Lithuania
J Psychosom Res 72:22-5. 2012
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- Relationship of fatigue and exercise capacity with emotional and physical state in patients with coronary artery disease admitted for rehabilitation program
Adomas Bunevicius
Institute of Psychophysiology and Rehabilitation of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Palanga, Lithuania
Am Heart J 162:310-6. 2011
..The relationship between subjective fatigue, exercise capacity, and symptoms of depression and anxiety in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) needs to be specified...
- Screening for antenatal depression with the Edinburgh Depression Scale
Adomas Bunevicius
Institute of Physiology and Rehabilitation, Kaunas University of Medicine, LT 00135 Palanga, Lithuania
J Psychosom Obstet Gynaecol 30:238-43. 2009
..The EPDS is a reliable instrument for repeated evaluations of depressive symptoms during pregnancy. It has a good sensitivity and specificity for detecting antenatal MDD with optimal cutoff of 11/12 or higher...
- Validation of the Lithuanian version of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale
Adomas Bunevicius
Mokyklos 4, 53216 Garliava, Lithuania
Medicina (Kaunas) 45:544-8. 2009
..83, sensitivity of 92%, and specificity of 73%. CONCLUSIONS. The EPDS has a good reliability as a screening instrument, and a cutoff score of 7 and more has to be used in screening for postpartum depressive disorders...
- The association of thyroid immunity with blood pressure and body mass index in primary care patients
Adomas Bunevicius
Institute of Psychophysiology and Rehabilitation, Kaunas University of Medicine, Palanga, Lithuania
Endocr Res 33:93-103. 2008
..To evaluate the association of thyroid immunity with cardiovascular symptoms and body mass index (BMI)...
- Brain lesions manifesting as psychiatric disorders: eight cases
Adomas Bunevicius
Institute of Psychophysiology and Rehabilitation, Kaunas University of Medicine, Palanga, Lithuania
CNS Spectr 13:950-8. 2008
..Therefore, neuroimaging studies are needed when atypical changes in mental status or neurologic symptoms and signs develop...
- Depressive disorder and thyroid axis functioning during pregnancy
Robertas Bunevicius
Institute of Psychophysiology and Rehabilitation, Kaunas University of Medicine, LT 00135 Palanga, Lithuania
World J Biol Psychiatry 10:324-9. 2009
..Depression and thyroid dysfunction are prevalent in women, including pregnant women. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between depression and thyroid function during pregnancy...
- Mood and thyroid immunity assessed by ultrasonographic imaging in a primary health care
Robertas Bunevicius
Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7160, USA
J Affect Disord 97:85-90. 2007
..The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of thyroid immunity, evident by hypo-echoic thyroid ultrasound pattern, on prevalence of depression and anxiety in a primary care setting...
- Psychosocial risk factors for depression during pregnancy
Robertas Bunevicius
Institute of Psychophysiology and Rehabilitation, Kaunas University of Medicine, Palanga, Lithuania
Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand 88:599-605. 2009
..To assess the prevalence of antenatal depressive disorder in different trimesters and to evaluate the relation of psychosocial risk factors to antenatal depressive disorder...
- Introduction of novel semiquantitative evaluation of (99m)Tc-MIBI SPECT before and after treatment of glioma
Vytenis Pranas Deltuva
Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Eiveniu 2, 50028 Kaunas, Lithuania
Medicina (Kaunas) 48:15-21. 2012
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- Transsphenoidal surgery for microprolactinomas in women: results and prognosis
Arimantas Tamasauskas
Laboratory of Neurooncology and Genetics, Institute of Neurosciences, Eiveniu g 4, Kaunas, Lithuania
Acta Neurochir (Wien) 154:1889-93. 2012
..However, DA therapy may be poorly tolerated by some patients, and therefore some patients continue to prefer surgery over DA therapy...
