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J ECT
November 2024
Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, Augusta, GA.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is underused, logistically challenging for those who are justice-involved, and laced with ethical problems for those on death row. Herein we describe a case of a man without history of long-standing psychiatric illness who, after more than 15 years on death row, was hospitalized for altered mental status. After medical stabilization, the altered mental status persisted.
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January 2025
Department of Psychiatry, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York.
Prim Care Companion CNS Disord
January 2025
Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Neurocase
January 2025
Department of Radiology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Catatonia may manifest as an independent entity or as a feature of a neuropsychiatric or medical illness. While electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is the gold standard treatment for catatonia, it is typically administered if the patient's symptoms fail to respond to benzodiazepines. We describe the case of a 22-year-old male with Budd Chiari induced cirrhosis and no prior psychiatric history, who presented with symptoms of psychosis and hepatic encephalopathy, was treated in the ICU for multi-factorial delirium, developed symptoms of catatonia that failed to respond to lorazepam, ultimately requiring ECT with a favorable response.
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January 2025
Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
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