Electroconvulsive treatment of patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia and empty sella syndrome: two case reports

Abstract

Empty sella is the neuroradiological or pathological finding of an empty sella turcica containing no pituitary tissue. Even though empty sella syndrome (ESS) and schizophrenia are both relatively common in the general population, to the best of our knowledge, there is only one similar case report regarding the co-occurrence of those two conditions

Keywords

• electroconvulsive therapy
• empty sella syndrome
• treatment-resistant schizophrenia