Background: The aim of our retrospective naturalistic observational study was to describe the use of maintenance electroconvulsive therapy (M-ECT) in chronic pharmacoresistant schizophrenia.
Subjects And Methods: We delineated 19 cases of chronic pharmacoresistant schizophrenia (females N=12) recently treated with maintenance electroconvulsive therapy at the Havlickuv Brod Psychiatric Hospital in the Czech Republic. Demographic, clinical and treatment variables were recorded.