Electroconvulsive therapy combined with lithium developed reversible pure anomic aphasia: a case report

BACKGROUND: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) combined with mood stabilizers is an effective method of treatment for manic episodes; however, there are controversial views on its side effects. CASE PRESENTATION: A 53-year-old man was diagnosed with bipolar disorder during a manic episode, and had prev...

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Autores principales: Yang, Qian, Cheng, Xiaofei, Su, Zhewei, Sun, Linyuan, Li, Mingli
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9615263/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36303177
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-04323-1
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author Yang, Qian
Cheng, Xiaofei
Su, Zhewei
Sun, Linyuan
Li, Mingli
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Cheng, Xiaofei
Su, Zhewei
Sun, Linyuan
Li, Mingli
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description BACKGROUND: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) combined with mood stabilizers is an effective method of treatment for manic episodes; however, there are controversial views on its side effects. CASE PRESENTATION: A 53-year-old man was diagnosed with bipolar disorder during a manic episode, and had previous conditions such as hypertension, and diabetes. He developed reversible delirium and anomic aphasia during combined treatment with lithium and ECT (Li-ECT). No other neurological symptoms or signs happened during the one-month follow-up period. CONCLUSIONS: The anomic aphasia appeared after ECT was reversible. Li-ECT should be administered with caution to middle- and older-aged patients with comorbidities, and serum Li levels should be closely monitored during the treatment period.
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spelling pubmed-96152632022-10-29 Electroconvulsive therapy combined with lithium developed reversible pure anomic aphasia: a case report Yang, Qian Cheng, Xiaofei Su, Zhewei Sun, Linyuan Li, Mingli BMC Psychiatry Case Report BACKGROUND: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) combined with mood stabilizers is an effective method of treatment for manic episodes; however, there are controversial views on its side effects. CASE PRESENTATION: A 53-year-old man was diagnosed with bipolar disorder during a manic episode, and had previous conditions such as hypertension, and diabetes. He developed reversible delirium and anomic aphasia during combined treatment with lithium and ECT (Li-ECT). No other neurological symptoms or signs happened during the one-month follow-up period. CONCLUSIONS: The anomic aphasia appeared after ECT was reversible. Li-ECT should be administered with caution to middle- and older-aged patients with comorbidities, and serum Li levels should be closely monitored during the treatment period. BioMed Central 2022-10-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9615263/ /pubmed/36303177 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-04323-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Cheng, Xiaofei
Su, Zhewei
Sun, Linyuan
Li, Mingli
Electroconvulsive therapy combined with lithium developed reversible pure anomic aphasia: a case report
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title_full Electroconvulsive therapy combined with lithium developed reversible pure anomic aphasia: a case report
title_fullStr Electroconvulsive therapy combined with lithium developed reversible pure anomic aphasia: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Electroconvulsive therapy combined with lithium developed reversible pure anomic aphasia: a case report
title_short Electroconvulsive therapy combined with lithium developed reversible pure anomic aphasia: a case report
title_sort electroconvulsive therapy combined with lithium developed reversible pure anomic aphasia: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9615263/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36303177
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-04323-1
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