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Electroconvulsive therapy was well tolerated and effective over a course of eight treatments in a depressed patient 7 to 14 days after a cerebellar stroke.
Electroconvulsive therapy may be safely and effectively used in depressed patients during the acute poststroke period.
ECT may be feasible in acute post-cerebellar stroke depression; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
A depressed patient was successfully treated with electroconvulsive therapy approximately 7 to 14 days after a cerebellar stroke. This report documents an uncomplicated use of electroconvulsive therapy that was well tolerated and effective in a course of eight treatments in the acute poststroke period.
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Weintraub et al. (2000) studied this question. Electroconvulsive therapy was well tolerated and effective over a course of eight treatments in a depressed patient 7 to 14 days after a cerebellar stroke.
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