Hemodialysis for uremic schizophrenics: no psychiatric improvement.

Two uremic schizophrenics received 73 and 26 hemodialyses in 33 and 18 weeks respectively. Serial objective psychiatric scales were applied and indicated lack of improvement of schizophrenia during dialysis therapy. Further trials with hemodialysis on uremic schizophrenics need to be undertaken before this investigational therapy is offered for non-uremic schizophrenics.