Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-8bhkd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-10T05:09:07.974Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Psychiatry and the Artificial Kidney

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

John Kogeorgos
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Regular, long term haemodialysis is a standard treatment of patients in chronic renal failure. Its psychiatric implications have been dealt with in a number of studies, most of which concentrate on purely psychological or social aspects, for example patients' perception of and response to illness (Pritchard, 1974), the relevance to outcome of basic personality (Kaplan De-Nour and Czaczkes, 1976), or the impact on the family of dialysis carried out at home (Farmer et al, 1979). There are two distinct psychiatric syndromes of importance which can be clinically recognized.

Type
Comments
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 143 , Issue 1 , July 1983 , pp. 87 - 88
Copyright
Copyright © 1983 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Ackrill, P., Ralston, A. J., Day, J. P. & Hodge, K. C. (1980) Successful removal of aluminium from patient with dialysis encephalopathy. Lancet, 2, 692–3.Google ScholarPubMed
Alfrey, A. C., Mishell, J. M., Burks, J., Contiguglia, S. R., Rudolph, H., Lewin, E. & Holmes, J. H. (1972) Syndrome of dyspraxia and multifocal seizures associated with chronic haemodialysis. Transactions of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, 18, 257–60.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Burks, J., Alfrey, A. C., Huddlestone, J., Norenberg, M. D. & Lewin, E. (1976) A fatal encephalopathy in chronic haemodialysis patients. Lancet, i, 764–8.Google Scholar
Farmer, C. J., Bewick, M., Parsons, V. & Snowden, S. A. (1979) Survival on home haemodialysis: its relationship with physical symptomatology, psychosocial background and psychiatric morbidity. Psychological Medicine, 9, 515–23.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Kaplan De-Nour, A. & Czaczkes, J. W. (1976) The influence of patients' personality on adjustment to chronic dialysis. Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, 162, 323–33.Google Scholar
Kennedy, A. C. (1964) The pathogenesis and prevention of cerebral dysfunction during dialysis. Lancet, i, 790–3.Google Scholar
Kogeorgos, J. & Scholtz, C. (1982) Alzheimer's neurofibrillary tangles in Dialysis Encephalopathy: A new finding. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology, Vol. 8, 246.Google Scholar
Lancet (1980) Dialysis dementia in Europe: Report from the Registration Committee of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association, 2, 190–2.Google Scholar
Parkinson, I. S., Ward, M. K. & Kerr, D. N. S. (1981) Dialysis encephalopathy, bone disease and anaemia: the aluminium intoxication syndrome during regular haemodialysis. Journal of Clinical Pathology, 34, 1285–94.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Platts, M. M. & Anastassiades, E. (1981) Dialysis encephalopathy: Precipitating factors and improvement in prognosis. Clinical Nephrology, 15, 223–8.Google ScholarPubMed
Pritchard, M. (1974) Meaning of illness and patients' response to long term haemodialysis. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 18, 457–64.Google ScholarPubMed
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.