Effect of hemodialysis on hallucinations.
A patient with chronic schizophrenia had two hemodialyses and two sham dialyses in a single-blind design. There was no change in the patient's affect after either procedure, but her auditory hallucinations disappeared after both hemodialysis and sham dialysis, with hemodialysis inducing a much longer partial remission.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000628:therapy*