Acute Mania and Catatonia in a Teenager Successfully Treated with Electroconvulsive Therapy and Diagnosed with Turner Syndrome and Bipolar Disorder

CONCLUSIONS: This case demonstrates for the first time that ECT may be a safe and efficient treatment strategy for acute mania in adolescents with concomitant TS and that severely affected adolescents may require a prolonged series with gradual tapering of ECT. The present case also demonstrates a possible association between TS and bipolar syndrome and that the clinical presentation of a manic episode in a patient with this comorbidity could be more complex and the treatment response slower.PMID:34956685 | PMC:PMC8709772 | DOI:10.1155/2021/3371591

Source: Case Reports in Psychiatry - December 27, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Maria Ygland R ödström Bj örn Axel Johansson Beata B äckström Pouya Movahed Carl-Magnus Forslund Olof Rask Source Type: research