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PubMed1978

["Kestenbaum's surgical rotation of the eyes" in patients with head tipped to the shoulder (author's transl)].

The principle of Kestenbaum's surgical rotation of the eyes has been found applicable to cases with head tilt to the shoulder. With restriction to the anterior parts of the obliques, which are acting mainly rotatory, the authors were able to release 9 patients out of 25 from their abnormal head posture with their operation. 12 showed definite improvement. However, the pathophysiology and the abolition of the head tilt to the shoulder could not alltogether be explained yet. Latent nystagmus with a resting position is found in only two out of three, a rotatory component only in one out of three patients. The authors believe that the picture of head tilt to the shoulder may rather be located within the classification of congenital strabismus syndrome (Lang) than within a strict causal classification after a certain type of nystagmus.

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[Failure to live up to a value measure as a specific conflict situation in migraine patients].

In order to test the hypothesis that "migraine"-patients fail to live up their own sets of values, a questionnaire-test was designed covering the following dimensions: aggressivity in frustrating situations, frustration-tolerance, ambition, personal sets of values, compulsive tendencies towards orderliness, rigidity. On scrutinizing the material produced by 27 test cases and 25 control cases significant differences regarding both aggressivity in frustrating situations and compulsive orderliness were established. Regarding compulsive orderliness migraine-patients have proved to be very demanding; being frustrated in their demands, they act out their aggressions to a significantly lesser degree than the control cases. These findings are qualified, however, by the fact that the capacity for self-evaluation seems to be markedly reduced where a high value of neuroticism (established through comparison with EPI) was found.

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PubMed1980

Fatal water intoxication in a case of psychogenic polydipsia.

The term "water intoxication" is used to describe a condition of agitation, delirium, convulsion, and coma brought on by excessive intake of water, resulting in severe hyponatremia. Psychogenic polydipsia (compulsive water drinking) has until recently been considered a relatively benign process. Since 1974, however, three fatal cases of water intoxication, resulting from psychogenic polydipsia, have been reported. All three individuals died while hospitalized, thereby permitting performance of blood electrolyte determinations and documentation of the associated electrolyte imbalance. In the authors' case, there was a well-documented prior episode of water intoxication in which serum electrolytes showed a pattern typical of this entity. Death, however, occurred at home, thus preventing valid serum electrolyte determinations to be performed. Analysis of the vitreous humor revealed a severe hyponatremia, thus substantiating the diagnosis of fatal water intoxication. This case, once again, points out the usefulness of electrolyte analyses on the vitreous humor as an aid to establishing a cause of death.

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PubMed1980

Hyponatremia in psychogenic polydipsia.

Twenty psychotic patients with psychogenic polydipsia had hyponatremia (98 to 124 mEq/L) lasting up to 28 months, with headache, hypertension, dementia, seizures, lethargy, and coma. Two deaths also may be attributed to this syndrome. Patients drank 7 to 43 L of water daily. Urine was dilute during this water load (37 to 95 mOsm/kg), and free water clearance ranged from 12 to 36 L/day, while plasma osmolality was 236 to 244 mOsm/kg. During fluid deprivation in seven such patients, urinary osmolality exceeded plasma osmolality when plasma concentration had risen to between 242 and 272 mOsm/kg, thus suggesting a "reset osmostat" or antidiuretic hormone response to nonosmotic stimuli. This tended to sustain hyponatremia. Polydipsia should be recognized as a cause of hyponatremia, perhaps with reset osmostat. This ultimately may cause dementia or death, possibly secondary to recurrent cerebral edema. This sequence of events is potentially preventable or correctable.

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PubMed1995

[Compulsion in psychiatry].

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PubMed1994

[Approaches in the treatment of pathologic gambling].

In the treatment of pathological gambling the diagnosis, treatment of the accessory psychopathology and the somatic condition are important. Motivation training, behavioural and reality-oriented therapy, modification of the lifestyle relaxation techniques and yoga proved useful. There is also experience with dynamically oriented treatment techniques self-esteem reinforcement, training of social skills, strategies which promote impulse control, artetherapy, group therapy, provision of relevant information etc. Family therapy is important both for a pathological gambler and his/her relatives. Very important is contact with the family of the pathological gambler for his own treatment and with regard to the needs of his/her relatives. A therapeutic approach common abroad is participation in a self-help group, Gamblers Anonymous.

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