Electroconvulsive therapy-induced mania: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Despite its controversial history, electroconvulsive therapy is generally an effective treatment with few serious side effects. One rare but troublesome side effect of electroconvulsive therapy is mania. CASE PRESENTATION: A 33-year-old Turkish woman developed mania on three separate o...

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Autores principales: Saatcioglu, Omer, Guduk, Mehmet
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2783094/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19946511
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-3-94
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Guduk, Mehmet
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description INTRODUCTION: Despite its controversial history, electroconvulsive therapy is generally an effective treatment with few serious side effects. One rare but troublesome side effect of electroconvulsive therapy is mania. CASE PRESENTATION: A 33-year-old Turkish woman developed mania on three separate occasions after receiving electroconvulsive therapy for severe depressive episodes. CONCLUSION: Patients who experience electroconvulsive therapy-related mania should be evaluated for alternative treatments when presenting with severe depression.
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spelling pubmed-27830942009-11-26 Electroconvulsive therapy-induced mania: a case report Saatcioglu, Omer Guduk, Mehmet J Med Case Reports Case report INTRODUCTION: Despite its controversial history, electroconvulsive therapy is generally an effective treatment with few serious side effects. One rare but troublesome side effect of electroconvulsive therapy is mania. CASE PRESENTATION: A 33-year-old Turkish woman developed mania on three separate occasions after receiving electroconvulsive therapy for severe depressive episodes. CONCLUSION: Patients who experience electroconvulsive therapy-related mania should be evaluated for alternative treatments when presenting with severe depression. BioMed Central 2009-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC2783094/ /pubmed/19946511 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-3-94 Text en Copyright ©2009 Saatcioglu and Guduk; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Electroconvulsive therapy-induced mania: a case report
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title_full Electroconvulsive therapy-induced mania: a case report
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title_short Electroconvulsive therapy-induced mania: a case report
title_sort electroconvulsive therapy-induced mania: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2783094/
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