title: [Acute water intoxication as a complication of therapy refractory schizophrenia].
abstract: A patient with chronic paranoid schizophrenia with delusions of infestation and of grandeur type, developed polydipsia in the course of his illness which ended up in acute life-threatening water intoxication. Apart from somatic causes like SIADH, which are discussed in literature, water-intoxication could psychodynamically be interpreted in the sense of acting on delusions.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik, Basel.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Frei
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kolb
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D003702:Delusions / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000523:psychology*; D016352:Group Homes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010359:Patient Readmission; D012008:Recurrence; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000523:psychology*; D014869:Water Intoxication / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy
vernacular_title: Akute Wasserintoxikation als Komplikation einer therapierefraktären Schizophrenie.