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ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY IN A HUNGARIAN ACADEMIC CENTRE (1999-2010)

Gábor Gazdag orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-6914-8041 ; Center for Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine, Szent István and Szent László Hospital, Budapest, Hungary; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
Rozália Takács ; 1st Department of Psychiatry, Nyírő Gyula Hospital, Budapest, Hungary
Judit Tolna ; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
Zsolt Iványi ; Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
Gabor S. Ungvari ; University of Notre Dame, Australia/Marian Centre, Perth, Australia; School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
István Bitter orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-9464-4709 ; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary


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Background: Since the 1930s, the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Semmelweis University (DPPSU) in Budapest
has played a leading role in convulsive therapy in Hungary. The aim of this study was to describe the pattern of ECT use at the
DPPSU over an 11-year period.
Subjects and methods: Analysis of the medical notes of all patients treated with ECT in this academic centre between 1999 and
2009.
Results: During the study period, 28,230 patients were admitted to the DPPSU, of whom 457 (1.6%) received ECT. More than
50% of patients receiving ECT were diagnosed with schizophrenia. The percentage of female patients receiving ECT significantly
exceeded that of the male patients, above what was expected in view of the diagnostic mix.
Conclusion: The data indicate that in the first decade of the 21th century, ECT use shows a declining tendency in this Hungarian
academic centre. The mean number of treatment sessions was relatively low and nearly the same across diagnostic groups. ECT was
mainly used as a last resort for treatment-resistant patients. In the majority of cases, bifronto-temporal brief pulse stimulation was
applied. Seizures were monitored with EEG and EMG.

Ključne riječi

ECT practice - academic centre – schizophrenia - affective disorders

Hrčak ID:

162109

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/162109

Datum izdavanja:

16.12.2013.

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