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Keith G Rasmussen1, Debra A Ryan, Paul S Mueller
1Department of Psychiatry, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. rasmussen.keith@mayo.edu
Abstract:
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is often performed for patients with psychiatric disorders who also have diabetes mellitus. Some research has suggested that the course of ECT treatments does not have a consistent effect on blood glucose, but little data exist to inform the clinician about the effects of individual ECT treatments on blood glucose. In this study, 18 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus were treated with ECT for severe depressive illness. For each patient, a fingerstick blood glucose was routinely obtained before and approximately 20 minutes after each ECT treatment. We found a mean rise of blood glucose after each treatment of approximately 9%, similar to the mean rise of blood glucose among nondiabetic patients undergoing ECT found in a previous study. There were no cases of clinically significant rise or fall in blood glucose. We provide recommendations for management of diabetics during ECT.
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