Electroconvulsive Therapy in Acute Life-Threatening Catatonia with Associated Cardiac and Respiratory Decompensation.

Convuls Ther

Department of Psychiatry, Landesnervenklinik Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.

Published: January 1987

A 61-year-old white female patient with known endogenous depression developed acute life-threatening catatonia. Associated cardiac and respiratory insufficiency prevented drug therapy. The patient was successfully treated with ECT.

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