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TREATMENT OF A CASE OF PSYCHOTIC DEPRESSION COMPLICATED BY AORTIC HOMOGRAPH REPLACEMENT
Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.12.1120

1. A 53-year-old man with an acute psychotic depression received electric shock treatment a year after an aneurysm of his descending thoracic aorta was replaced by a homograph.

2. Although the patient also had hypertension, good clinical results were obtained without the development of untoward cardiovascular effects.

3. It is not considered that an aortic homograph is a contraindication to electric shock treatment.

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