E.c.t. Induced Catationia: a Case Report
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For a long time catatonic signs were considered to be the specific features of schizophrenia (Vogdt 1958). It soon became clear that such features may occur in functional psychoses other than schizophrenia and in fact, may even be more common in affective psychosis than schizophrenia (Abram & Taylor 1976). Apart from functional disorders like schizophrenia, affective psychosis and hysteria, a catatonic syndrome may be caused by a large number of neurologic, metabolic and toxic conditions (Galenberg 1976). There have been reports of catatonic features occuring in encephalitis lethargica (Schilder 1969), uraemia (Steinman & Yager 1978) systemic lupus erythematosus (Kronofol et al. 1977), subdural haematoma (Woods 1980), malaria (Durrant 1977), thrombocytopenic purpura (Read 1983) and during drug therapy such as with neuropleptics (Galenberg & Mandels 1977), disulfiram (Weddington et al. 1980) steroids (Sullivan & Dickerman 1979) or even with epidural morphine (Engquist et al. 1980) or during glutethimide withdrawal (Campbell et al. 1983). However, we have not come across any case of catatonia occurring during electro-convulsive therapy (E.C.T). We report such a case.
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دوره 30 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1988