Splenic spite Page 1 tramuscular administration is significantly more effective than oral
administration of vitamin K1 in preventing late HDNB. The questionnaire data presented by von …

A prior study in a US state hospital suggested that schizophrenia, smoking and long
hospitalization were associated with polydipsia. This study, in another US hospital, attempts …

Behavioral treatment of a 35 year old female with chronic schizophrenia and water
intoxication with seizures was conducted on an inpatient psychiatric unit. Treatment included …

Medical evaluations had not revealed identifiable causes of polydipsia. With clozapine
treatment, the patients' excessive water intake mar-kedly decreased; three ofthe patients …

This is a retrospective review of the author's experience with polydipsia in a long-term unit
for treatment refractory patients at a US psychiatric state hospital during a 5-year period …

Dr. Pate! is medical director of the Commonwealth Research and Evaluation Unit at
Massachusetts Mental Health Center, 74 Fen-wood Road, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 …

Studies to date have only investigated primary polydipsia in hospitalized psychiatric patient
populations, where rates range from 3% to 25%. The objective of the present study was to …

To the Editor: The overview article on polydipsia and hyponatmemia in psychiatric patients
by Shah and Greenberg(1) in the May 1992 issue raises readers' consciousness about the …

Psychiatric patients presenting with chronic psychogenic polydipsia are often difficult to treat
with standard psychiatric interventions. Pharmacologic intervention was attempted in three …