[Direction of the clinical pathomorphosis of alcoholic delirium]

An examination of 348 patients with alcoholic delirium permitted to detect the main directions in the evolutional variability of the clinical picture. The authors distinguished 3 types in the development of a delirium: short-term with a complete and incomplete (abortive) variant; typical delirium with mono-and polymorphic structure of the syndrome; a protracted development in the form of a severe psychoses of a complex structure and a sluggish protracted variant with an obliviated symptomatology.