Resolution of SPECT-determined anterior cerebral hypoperfusion correlated with maintenance ECT-derived improvement in residual symptoms in a case of late-life psychotic depression

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 253-255

  Suzuki, Kazumasa ^a   Awata, Shuichi ^b   Takano, Takehisa ^c   Ebina, Yukio ^a   Numata, Shinichi ^d   Saito, Atsushi ^c   Ito, Kae ^a   Matsuoka, Hiroo ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b SENDAI CITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d Inokashira Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral perfusion; Elderly; Electroconvulsive therapy; Maintenance ECT; Psychotic depression; SPECT

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CASE REPORT; CHRONICITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RECURRENT DISEASE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AFFECTIVE DISORDERS, PSYCHOTIC; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; STATISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748142938     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000210244.22926.81     Document Type: Article

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