Maintenance ECT for recurrent medication-refractory mania.
Maintenance electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can sometimes be the only treatment that yields extended periods of euthymia to patients with severe, treatment-resistant mania. We describe a case of a patient with recurrent and severe mania who responded acutely to ECT after failing various medication trials and could only maintain euthymia with maintenance ECT.
Tsao
Carol I
CI
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA. ctsao@mcw.edu
Jain
Shaili
S
Gibson
Richard H
RH
Guedet
Patty J
PJ
Lehrmann
Jon A
JA
D000368:Aged; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000628:therapy*; D004351:Drug Resistance; D004565:Electroconvulsive Therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012008:Recurrence; D016896:Treatment Outcome
D011619:Psychotropic Drugs