Acute and maintenance electroconvulsive therapy for treatment of severely disabling obsessive-compulsive symptoms in a patient with Asperger syndrome

• We report successful treatment with electroconvulsivetherapy of a comorbid condition including severe obsessive-compulsivesymptoms and hypochondriacal delusions in a 38-year-old man withAsperger syndrome. His condition deteriorated into a severely disabledchronic state that was refractory to different pharmacological andpsychological treatments but was completely reversed after electroconvulsivetherapy. Although typical obsessive-compulsive symptoms werepredominant, the case also exhibits differences compared with regularobsessive-compulsive disorder regarding onset and course that arediscussed in the report.

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ECT

Asperger syndrome

obsessive-compulsive disorder

hypochondriasis

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MEDICIN

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