Improvement of phencyclidine-associated psychosis with ECT.
Phencyclidine-associated psychosis may mimic classic forms of both schizophrenia and affective psychosis. Treatment of phencyclidine-associated psychosis may prove very difficult for some patients. A patient who developed a severe phencyclidine-associated psychosis and failed to respond to high doses of antipsychotics is described. The patient responded dramatically to electroconvulsive therapy.
D000328:Adult; D004565:Electroconvulsive Therapy; D005476:Fluphenazine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010622:Phencyclidine / Q000009:adverse effects*; D010623:Phencyclidine Abuse / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology; D011605:Psychoses, Substance-Induced / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D014754:Violence
C011825:fluphenazine depot; D010622:Phencyclidine; D005476:Fluphenazine