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Dialisis dementia: electroencephalographic study of a case

A case of a 65 years-old black man with chronic renal failure, treated with chronic haemodialysis, in which a dialysis dementia syndrome developed is reported. In the initial fase the electroencephalogram had the typical burst of sharp and slow waves, waning with halperidol and diazepan treatment. The withdraw of this medication induced reaparence of the symptoms and EEC anormalities. As soon as the patient come back to the diazepine (potassium clorazepate), the mental symptoms subsided, but few weeks later he died of a cerebral haemorrage. The electroencephalographic features are described and a brief comments about this disease is made.


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