Intractable Manic-Depressive Psychosis with Rapid Cycling in an 18-Year-Old Woman Successfully Treated with Electroconvulsive Therapy
- 1 April 1987
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease
- Vol. 175 (4) , 236-239
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00005053-198704000-00009
Abstract
An adolescent patient with a history of progressively more severe seasonal depression subsequently developed a refractory manic-depressive psychosis with rapid cycling after the initiation of treatment with trimipramine. A complete remission was obtained after a course of six electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) treatments. This unusual case and its outcome are discussed in terms of apparent drug-induced rapid cycling and the treatment of this condition. It is suggested that ECT can be successfully used as an alternative therapeutic option for patients with intractable rapid-cycling manic-depressive disorder.Keywords
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