Key result
Electroconvulsive therapy induces transient left hemiparesis resolving completely within 10 minutes.
Why the study?
Transient hemiparesis (Todd's paralysis) after electroconvulsive therapy is a rare phenomenon with limited reported cases and unclear clinical characterization.
Todd's paralysis can occur as a transient, rapidly resolving neurological complication following electroconvulsive therapy.
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Todd's paralysis may occur transiently after ECT and resolve rapidly; this case leaves open its incidence and monitoring needs.
We report the case of a 50-year-old man who exhibited transient left hemiparesis (Todd's paralysis) after electroconvulsive therapy, which completely resolved within 10 minutes. Subsequent neurological evaluation was unremarkable for discrete etiologies for this event, other than Todd's paralysis. We review the literature of this phenomenon in association with electroconvulsive therapy.
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Liff et al. (2013) studied this question. Electroconvulsive therapy induced transient left hemiparesis (Todd's paralysis) that completely resolved within 10 minutes in a 50-year-old man with major depressive disorder.
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