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Treatment of lethal catatonia with electroconvulsive therapy and dantrolene sodium: a case report
1Department of Biological Psychiatry, Psychiatric Centre Bloemendaal, The Hague, The Netherlands.
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
|July 1, 1990
Abstract:
According to the literature, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is the most effective treatment for lethal catatonia. This article describes a patient with lethal catatonia: treatment by ECT alone was ineffective, whereas continued treatment with ECT in combination with dantrolene sodium led to improvement.