Electroconvulsive therapy for depression in a patient with an intracranial arachnoid cyst.

Arachnoid Cysts/complications/diagnosis; Depressive Disorder/complications/therapy; Electroconvulsive Therapy/methods; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Middle Aged

Abstract :

[en] Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been frequently considered relatively contraindicated in patients with space-occupying lesions in the brain. After the 7 cases available in the literature, we describe the safe use of ECT in a depressive patient with arachnoid cyst. We provide a comprehensive review on this clinical association, and we conclude that even if the few data available are reassuring, careful neurological evaluation before the ECT treatment is indicated.

Disciplines :

Psychiatry

Author, co-author :

Desseilles, Martin ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Psychiatrie et psychologie médicale

Thiry, Jean-Christophe; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Radiologie - Imagerie médicale

Monville, Jean-François

Ansseau, Marc ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Psychiatrie et psychologie médicale

Makhinson, Michael

Language :

English

Title :

Electroconvulsive therapy for depression in a patient with an intracranial arachnoid cyst.

Publication date :

2009

Journal title :

Journal of ECT

ISSN :

1095-0680

eISSN :

1533-4112

Publisher :

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Hagerstown, United States - Maryland

Volume :

Issue :

Pages :

64-6

Peer reviewed :

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