title: ECT in a patient with psychotic retarded depression, metastatic hepatic cancer, and esophageal varices.
abstract: We report a patient with liver disease and esophageal varices who responded to intensive psychiatric intervention on a medical unit. Her case illustrates the successful use of electroconvulsive therapy in the presence of varices, and highlights some precautions that could be taken in treating similar patients.
authors.affiliation: Kettering General Hospital, Northamptonshire, England.
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Blewett
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kareem
mesh_terms: D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy*; D004565:Electroconvulsive Therapy; D004932:Esophageal and Gastric Varices / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D008875:Middle Aged