[Postpregnancy psychoses in Kinshasa. Various clinical and hormonal aspects]. / Les psychoses post-gravidiques à Kinshasa. Quelques aspects cliniques et hormonaux.

Some clinical and hormonal points of view about forty post-partum psychotics are the object of this study. We have pointed the relatively young age of the patients and the heredo-familial factors importance. From a clinical point of view, we must notice the prevalence of sharp delirious blasts and of depression with regard to western studies. The hormonal study incomplete could not put into evidence the importance of this etiopathogenic.