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Investigation of Cholesterol and Fatty Acids in Periodic Catatonia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

M. Maeda ,
O. Borud  and
L. R. Gjessing
M. Maeda
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto, Japan
O. Borud
Affiliation:
Central Laboratory, Orkemnu Hospital, Asker, Norway
L. R. Gjessing
Affiliation:
Central Laboratory, Dikemark Hospital, Asker, Norway
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In 1951, J. Cammermeyer and R. Gjessing (I) reported one case of fatal myocardial fat embolism in periodic catatonia with fatty liver. This patient had suffered from periodic catatonia for many years and had been investigated by R. Gjessing (28) for a considerable number of years. One day in the beginning of a psychotic phase he suddenly died. His death was explained by the histological demonstration of fat emboli in the myocardium. A careful clinical survey of the patient and study of his case record failed to reveal any of the usual sources of fat embolism, but a centrolobular fatty degeneration of severe degree was found in the liver which was assumed to be the source of fat emboli.

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Biochemical and Metabolic Studies
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 115 , Issue 518 , January 1969 , pp. 81 - 93
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1969 

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