Forty meals for a drop of blood .

J Travel Med. 2009 Jan-Feb;16(1):64-5. doi: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2008.00264.x.

Abstract

Increasing migration flow to Western countries poses formidable challenges from the epidemiological, clinical, and cultural standpoints. A case of Dhat syndrome is presented in a young Pakistani male migrant living in Italy, which required integrated medical and cultural approach to be solved after a through diagnostic workout that did not yield any result.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Antidepressive Agents / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • Italy
  • Male
  • Neurotic Disorders / diagnosis*
  • Neurotic Disorders / drug therapy
  • Neurotic Disorders / ethnology*
  • Pakistan / ethnology
  • Patient Education as Topic
  • Sexual Behavior / ethnology
  • Stress, Psychological / ethnology*
  • Transients and Migrants
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Urethra / pathology

Substances

  • Antidepressive Agents