Mortality in Depressed Patients Treated with Electroconvulsive Therapy and Antidepressants

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 1976, Pages 1029-1037

  Avery, David ^a,b   Winokur, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Veterans Administration Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; IMIPRAMINE; PHENELZINE; PLACEBO;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; AGE; AGED; CARDIOTOXICITY; DEATH; DEPRESSION; DRUG COMPARISON; ELECTROCONVULSIVE SHOCK; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HEART INFARCTION; MORTALITY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SUDDEN DEATH; SUICIDE; THERAPY;

AGE FACTORS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NEOPLASMS; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.;

EID: 0017183132     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1976.01770090019001     Document Type: Article

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