Adrenal Apoplexy Following Electronarcosis Therapy

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Abstract
ARECENT review of the subject of adrenal apoplexy1 listed convulsions among the causes of that syndrome. It is known that massive adrenal hemorrhage occurs in occasional patients with severe epilepsy; indeed, this lesion may even be the cause of death in status epilepticus.2 , 3 In a psychotic patient studied at this hospital adrenal apoplexy developed in association with prolonged induced seizures; it was therefore considered of interest to review available information on the relation of convulsions to adrenal hemorrhage.Case ReportH. T. H., a native-born spinster, first entered the McLean Hospital in August, 1945, at the age of 73, with . . .