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Published on: August 15, 2017
Electroconvulsive therapy and Klinefelter syndrome
Qiang Wei1, Xinhui Xie, Yang Chen
1Department of Neurology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Anhui Province, China.
Abstract:
Klinefelter syndrome is a common sex chromosome disorder characterized by the presence of 1 or more extra X chromosomes, and the most prevalent karyotype is 47,XXY. Epidemiological studies have showed that patients with Klinefelter syndrome had a significantly increased risk of psychosis. We presented a case of a patient with Klinefelter syndrome who was characterized by psychiatric symptoms. The patients had been refractory to clozapine and sodium valproate, but a remarkable improvement occurred after a cycle of 11 sessions of modified electroconvulsive therapy.
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