[Effect of psychopharmacotherapy on the course of forced insulin-coma treatment of patients with paranoid schizophrenia].

The course of forced insulin-coma therapy in cases of preliminary employment of psychotropic drugs (mainly derivatives of phenothiazine or leponex) may be attended by variable forms of deviations including serious complications whereas they are not encountered in cases of treatment with haloperidol and pharmacologically similar long-acting drugs. These findings justify the employment, when necessary, of the above drugs in combination with forced insulin-coma therapy.