Am J Psychiatry 1989; 146:782-784
Copyright © 1989 by American Psychiatric Association
ECT for major depression in four patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus
FW Schaerf, RR Miller, JR Lipsey and RW McPherson
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 21205.
The authors describe four individuals infected with the human
immunodeficiency virus type I (HIV) whose severe depressions were
successfully treated with ECT.