Efficacy and Safety of Combined ECT and Tricyclic Antidepressant Drugs in the Treatment of Depressed Geriatric Patients
作者:
John,
Nelson Lloyd,
期刊:
Convulsive Therapy
(OVID Available online 1989)
卷期:
Volume 5,
issue 4
页码: 321-329
ISSN:0749-8055
年代: 1989
出版商: OVID
关键词: Electroconvulsive therapy;Antidepressant agents, tricyclic;Depression.
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
SummaryClinical outcome of 84 elderly unipolar depressed patients who had received electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), with or without concurrent tricyclic antidepressant medication, was reviewed retrospectively to discover if predictions based on preclinical studies of increased efficacy with combined treatment would be supported. Global outcome at discharge was improved for those patients who had received tricyclic antidepressant drugs concurrent with ECT. They also required fewer ECT treatments to achieve that improvement. Total seizure times were markedly reduced for the combined therapy group, which was an unexpected finding.
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