ECT use in unipolar and bipolar depression. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • BACKGROUND: Few studies have compared response to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in depressed patients with unipolar and bipolar disorder. METHODS: We reviewed the charts of inpatients with unipolar or bipolar depression who received open treatment with right unilateral ECT. We compared the number of treatments, demographics, and change in Global Assessment of Functioning scores and length of hospital stay in both groups. RESULTS: Whereas changes in Global Assessment of Functioning scores and length of stay overlapped, the number of treatments in patients with bipolar disorder (mean ± SD, 7.5 ± 1.6) was lower than that in patients with unipolar disorder (mean ± SD, 10.2 ± 1.9). CONCLUSION: Fewer ECT treatments may be required to achieve similar benefit in patients with bipolar disorder compared to patients with unipolar disorder.

publication date

  • September 1, 2012

Research

keywords

  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Depressive Disorder, Major
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC3683318

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84865800321

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1097/YCT.0b013e318255a552

PubMed ID

  • 22914639

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 28

issue

  • 3