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| Title: | ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY EXPERIENCES AT NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL |
| Authors: | Kishimoto, Toshifumi
Ueda, Atsushi
Noriyama, Yoshinobu
Nagai, Toshiya
Hirayama, Tomohide
Kirita, Ikuhiro
Hata, Kazuya
Ikawa, Genro |
| Keywords: | electroconvulsive therapy
depressive disorder |
| Issue Date: | 30-Apr-1995 |
| Publisher: | 奈良医学会 |
| Citation: | 奈良医学雑誌 Vol.46 No.2 p.148-152 |
| Abstract: | We surveyed the clinical electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) treatment expe-
riences between 1987 and 1992 at Nara Medical University Hospital. ECT is restrictedly
applied to severely ill patients who have no response to other somatic therapies. For 5
years, 43 cases were treated with ECT, of which 27 suffered from depressive disorders, 3
from schizophrenia, 3 from somatoform disorders, and 10 from anxiety disorders. ECT was
selected by psychiatrists for severe depressive states after failure of psychopharmacological
therapy. A favorable therapeutic response to ECT was observed in 69% of patients with
major depression, in 2 of 3 patients with schizophrenia, and in 70% of patients with anxiety
disorders. In 2 of 3 patients with somatoform disorders, amelioration of the depressive or
anxiety syndrome was not observed. Side effects of ECT were reversible memory distur-
bance (16%), retrograde partial amnesia (12%), and reversible confusional state (5%).
These results suggest that ECT is highly effective in therapy resistant major depression,
schizophrenia, and anxiety disorders. Therefore ECT still remains a necessary part of
psychiatric therapy. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10564/809 |
| ISSN: | 04695550
13450069 |
| Appears in Collections: | Vol.46 No.2
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