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Generalized nonconvulsive status epilepticus after electroconvulsive therapy
R Grogan1, D R Wagner, T Sullivan
1Department of Psychiatry, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Division, White Plains 10605, USA.
Convulsive Therapy
|March 1, 1995
Abstract:
Status epilepticus is a rare complication of conventional single-stimulus electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). We report a case of ECT-induced nonconvulsive generalized status epilepticus (NGS) that lasted 3.5 days. The patient showed regressed psychotic behavior coupled with waxing and waning mutism and unresponsiveness as well as subtle unilateral motor signs. The diagnosis of NGS requires electroencephalographic confirmation.