LITHIUM TREATMENT IN AFFECTIVE DISORDERS

50 manic patients of unipolar and bipolar affective illness were placed on oral lithium 600-1500 mg daily and serum levels in the range of 0.49-1.23 mEq/L. A better response in bipolar disorders than unipolar was observed. Besides, a much better response to lithium therapy is observed in patients wi...

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Autores principales: Tandon, A. K., Asare, Ram, Saxena, V. C.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1981
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3013187/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22058517
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description 50 manic patients of unipolar and bipolar affective illness were placed on oral lithium 600-1500 mg daily and serum levels in the range of 0.49-1.23 mEq/L. A better response in bipolar disorders than unipolar was observed. Besides, a much better response to lithium therapy is observed in patients with disease of longer duration and a positive history of affective illness in blood relations. Therapeutic effect had no relationship in terms of age or sex of the patients.
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spelling pubmed-30131872011-11-06 LITHIUM TREATMENT IN AFFECTIVE DISORDERS Tandon, A. K. Asare, Ram Saxena, V. C. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article 50 manic patients of unipolar and bipolar affective illness were placed on oral lithium 600-1500 mg daily and serum levels in the range of 0.49-1.23 mEq/L. A better response in bipolar disorders than unipolar was observed. Besides, a much better response to lithium therapy is observed in patients with disease of longer duration and a positive history of affective illness in blood relations. Therapeutic effect had no relationship in terms of age or sex of the patients. Medknow Publications 1981 /pmc/articles/PMC3013187/ /pubmed/22058517 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Tandon, A. K.
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LITHIUM TREATMENT IN AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
title LITHIUM TREATMENT IN AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
title_full LITHIUM TREATMENT IN AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
title_fullStr LITHIUM TREATMENT IN AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
title_full_unstemmed LITHIUM TREATMENT IN AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
title_short LITHIUM TREATMENT IN AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3013187/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22058517
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