OBJECTIVES Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is the most effective treatment for severe or treatment resistant depression; however, the lack of widely accepted methods for determining when ECT is indicated may contribute to disparities and variation in use. We examined receipt of ECT among depressed patients in the largest coordinated health system in the US, the Veterans Health Administration. ...

ectopic cervical thymus (ect) is an essentially benign condition that is identified during the development of the thymus, and is rare among the adult population. thymic hyperplasia is another thymus-associated condition, which is known to occur secondary to hyperthyroidism. a 39-year-old woman with hyperthyroidism presented with an enlarging submandibular mass, which was diagnosed as a benign h...

objective: despite the discovery of new antipsychotic drugs in recent years, a number of schizophrenic patients show no response to such drugs and are considered treatment-resistant. in such cases, clozapine and occasionally ect or a combination of drugs are used, though they are not very effective. in recent years, the combination of clozapine and ect for treatment-resistant schizophrenic pati...

Electrical Capacitance Tomography is a non intruding technique used in industries. It is based on measuring the capacitance of multi-electrode ECT sensor produced by the change in dielectricity or due to change in concentration of material. With the use of computed values, a cross sectional image of the material placed in the dielectric medium is obtained. ECT system can be used in chemical fie...

Electrochemotherapy (ECT) with bleomycin has been effectively used in recent years to treat various skin tumors. Microsecond electric pulses significantly improve (BLM) delivery and its anticancer potential. Up now, we can determine field distribution the targeted tissue, however, of injected drug is still not well known. In this study, propose combination indocyanine green (ICG) as a practical...