Electroconvulsive therapy for CRPS with depression: A case report
Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
;
: 13-15, 2013.
Article
in Korean
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-119330
ABSTRACT
Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a chronic painful condition that may arise in the site of an earlier injury or operation to a limb. Like all chronic painful condition, it is associated with depressed mood. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a procedure when traditional management with systemic medications, nerve blocks, and behavioral pain management were unsuccessful. ECT has been used in the treatment of chronic pain for over 50 years. CRPS and comorbid depression have also been treated successfully with ECT. However, not much has been done to clarify the ECT target in patients, whether the pain or the depression. We report a case of intractable chronic regional pain syndrome with secondary depression in which both of that were treated successfully with an initial ECT course.
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Main subject:
Depression
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Electroconvulsive Therapy
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Extremities
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Chronic Pain
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Pain Management
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Nerve Block
Limits:
Humans
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
Year:
2013
Type:
Article
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