Electroconvulsive therapy-responsive depression in a patient with progressive supranuclear palsy.
We report the case of a 68-year-old woman with progressive supranuclear palsy whose depression was successfully treated with electroconvulsive therapy. She tolerated the treatments well and showed neither improvement nor decline in the neurologic symptoms of her illness.
Netzel
P J
PJ
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Medical Center, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA.
Sutor
B
B
D000368:Aged; D015897:Comorbidity; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D004565:Electroconvulsive Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013494:Supranuclear Palsy, Progressive / Q000150:complications*; D016896:Treatment Outcome