Depression in a geriatric patient: alleviation by insertion of a pacemaker.
A geriatric patient had a number of depressive episodes over a 2 1/2-year period, each requiring hospital admission; no episode completely responded to antidepressant therapy. On his last admission an elective organic work-up revealed a sick sinus syndrome, for which he subsequently received a pacemaker, alleviating all of his symptoms.
D000368:Aged; D001919:Bradycardia / Q000628:therapy; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008173:Lung Diseases, Obstructive / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D013406:Suicide, Attempted; D013610:Tachycardia / Q000628:therapy