Electroconvulsive Therapy in Two Former Neurosurgical Patients: Skull Prosthesis and Ventricular Shunt.
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.
Levy
Stuart D.
SD
Friends Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Levy
Suzanne Bryer
SB