Electroconvulsive Therapy of Three Patients with Aortic Valve Prostheses
P. H. BLACHLY M.D.1, and
HERBERT J. SEMLER M.D.1
1 University of Oregon Medical School, 3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, Ore. 97201
Three middle-aged patients who developed depressive psychoses after insertion of prosthetic aortic valves and were effectively treated by multiple-monitored electro-convulsive therapy are described.