title: Electroconvulsive Therapy in Two Former Neurosurgical Patients: Skull Prosthesis and Ventricular Shunt.
abstract: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) was successfully used to treat patients with prior neurosurgical history. The first patient had undergone surgery for a meningioma with subsequent insertion of a plate in the cranium. The second patient had a history of normal pressure hydrocephalus which was treated with a ventriculoperitoneal shunt procedure. Both patients received ECT and in both cases the presenting symptoms of depression abated. Treatment was considered both uneventful and successful.
authors.affiliation: Friends Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: Stuart D.
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Levy
authors.forename: Suzanne Bryer
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Levy