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Metabolic studies of mental patients treated with insulin hypoglycemic shock treatment—III

Potassium tolerance before and after treatment

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  1. 1.

    The changes in the postabsorptive level of serum potassium of mental patients following a course of insulin hypoglycemic treatment is reported and their possible relation to the results of therapy are indicated.

  2. 2.

    The potassium tolerance test of Zwemer and Truszkowski has been carried out in a group of mental patients before and after a course of insulin hypoglycemic treatment, and the significance of the findings is discussed.

  3. 3.

    The increased sensitivity of some patients to the intravenous injection of potassium chloride is reported and its significance is considered.

  4. 4.

    Further lines of investigation are indicated.

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  1. WM. A. Horwitz

    Present address: departments of internal medicine and psychiatry of the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Hospital, 722 W. 168th Street, New York City

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Read at the Interhospital Conference of the New York State Hospitals held at the New York Psychiatric Institute and Hospital, April 19, 1939.

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Harris, M.M., Horwitz, W.A. Metabolic studies of mental patients treated with insulin hypoglycemic shock treatment—III. Psych Quar 13, 429–437 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01562846

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