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Fatal Heart Block and Cardiac Arrest Following ECT

A Case Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

M. O. A. Malik
M. O. A. Malik*
Affiliation:
Institute of Pathology, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland
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The patient, C, was a 33-year-old woman who attended hospital complaining of depression, inability to sleep, and weakness of hands and legs. This had been going on for 4 to 5 weeks. She had been suffering from ‘writer's cramp’ five years previously but this had been satisfactorily treated with drugs.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 120 , Issue 554 , January 1972 , pp. 69 - 70
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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