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Excessive hypertension and pulmonary edema after electroconvulsive therapy
James W Price1, John R Price, Thomas L Perry
1Department of Anesthesia, Royal Jubilee Hospital, Victoria, B.C., Canada. wallacep@interchange.ubc.ca
Abstract:
A 53-year-old right-handed man was scheduled to receive 6 treatments of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for intractable depression. He was being treated for long-standing hypertension with nadolol and had no history of cardiopulmonary disease. Six months previously, he received 6 nondominant, unilateral ECT treatments. During each of these treatments, his blood pressure increased transiently to as high as 250/150, but he experienced no adverse consequence. He commenced the current course of ECT with well-controlled blood pressure (145/90). During his first bilateral treatment, his blood pressure rose to 280/160, and pulmonary edema ensued. Clinically evident pulmonary edema after ECT is an uncommon event that rarely has been described in the literature.
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