Delayed Onset and Prolonged ECT-Related Delirium

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is effective in the treatment of depression. Delayed post-ECT delirium is rare but can occur in a small subset of patients with risk factors and in most cases resolves with the use of psychotropic medications. We report a unique presentation of a patient who developed...

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Autores principales: Hassamal, Sameer, Pandurangi, Ananda, Venkatachalam, Vasu, Levenson, James
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3776541/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24078892
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/840425
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author Hassamal, Sameer
Pandurangi, Ananda
Venkatachalam, Vasu
Levenson, James
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description Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is effective in the treatment of depression. Delayed post-ECT delirium is rare but can occur in a small subset of patients with risk factors and in most cases resolves with the use of psychotropic medications. We report a unique presentation of a patient who developed a delayed post-ECT delirium with fecal incontinence that commenced 24 hours after the administration of ECT. The condition resolved spontaneously after 48 hours without the use of psychotropic medications.
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spelling pubmed-37765412013-09-29 Delayed Onset and Prolonged ECT-Related Delirium Hassamal, Sameer Pandurangi, Ananda Venkatachalam, Vasu Levenson, James Case Rep Psychiatry Case Report Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is effective in the treatment of depression. Delayed post-ECT delirium is rare but can occur in a small subset of patients with risk factors and in most cases resolves with the use of psychotropic medications. We report a unique presentation of a patient who developed a delayed post-ECT delirium with fecal incontinence that commenced 24 hours after the administration of ECT. The condition resolved spontaneously after 48 hours without the use of psychotropic medications. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-09-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3776541/ /pubmed/24078892 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/840425 Text en Copyright © 2013 Sameer Hassamal et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Delayed Onset and Prolonged ECT-Related Delirium
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title_short Delayed Onset and Prolonged ECT-Related Delirium
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/840425
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