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Transient hemiparesis (Todd's paralysis) after electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in a patient with major depressive
Jeremy M Liff1, Ethan O Bryson, Eleni Maloutas
1Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA.
The Journal of ECT
|January 8, 2013
Abstract:
We report the case of a 50-year-old man who exhibited transient left hemiparesis (Todd's paralysis) after electroconvulsive therapy, which completely resolved within 10 minutes. Subsequent neurological evaluation was unremarkable for discrete etiologies for this event, other than Todd's paralysis. We review the literature of this phenomenon in association with electroconvulsive therapy.
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