Hemodialysis in schizophrenia

✍ Scribed by M. Fischler; H. M. Emrich; W. Kissling; D. Zerssen; H. Riedhammer; H. H. Edel

• Book ID: 104742980
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 339 KB
• Volume: 227
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1433-8491
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00367391

✦ Synopsis

Therapeutic trials with hemodfalysis have been performed in three cases of chronic schizophrenia. The severely ill patients had been hospitalized for more than ten years and had not responded to different types of conventional somatic treatment. Psychopathology was evaluated by use of the IMPS, BPRS, and NOSIE scales. No improvement could be observed as a consequence of 12 (11 in one case) hemodialysis treatments. Rather, some detericration occurred in two of the patients. This result is not in accord with the markedly positive findings of Wagemaker and Cade (1977). However, further studies appear necessary to render final conclusions.