ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY FOLLOWING SURGICAL CORRECTION OF AORTIC COARCTATION BY IMPLANTATION OF AN AORTIC ISOGRAFT
A Case History
J. VICTOR MONKE M. D.1
1 The Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Strong Memorial and Rochester Municipal Hospitals, Rochester, N. Y.
Electroconvulsive therapy, producing grand mal seizures, has been successfully given to a patient with a 6-cm. aortic isograft of one year without evident injury to the isograft and with marked psychological benefit to the patient.
