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Electroconvulsive therapy with metoprolol safely treated depression without cardiovascular side effects or significant blood pressure increases in a 67-year-old man with an aortic aneurysm.
Electroconvulsive therapy was safely performed in a patient with an aortic aneurysm using metoprolol succinate for blood pressure control.
May support ECT with beta-blockade in select aortic aneurysm cases; leaves open need for prospective safety data.
We report the case of a 67-year-old single man with aortic aneurysm whose depression was successfully treated with electroconvulsive therapy. Metoprolol succinate was used for blood pressure control, and there were no cardiovascular side effects and no significant increase in blood pressure detected.
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Çalıyurt et al. (2003) studied this question. Electroconvulsive therapy with metoprolol safely treated depression without cardiovascular side effects or significant blood pressure increases in a 67-year-old man with an aortic aneurysm.
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