Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Report of three cases that received maintenance treatment with risperidone as a mood stabilizer. | Annals of General Hospital Psychiatry Primary research BioMed Central Open Access Report of three cases that received maintenance treatment with risperidone as a mood stabilizer Konstantinos N Fountoulakis loannis Nimatoudis Apostolos lacovides and George Kaprinis Address 3rd Department of Psychiatry Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece Email Konstantinos N Fountoulakis - kfount@ IoannisNimatoudis - nimatoud@ Apostolos Iacovides - iacovid@ George Kaprinis - kaprinis@ Corresponding author Published 26 May 2004 Received 26 January 2004 Accepted 26 May 2004 Annals of General Hospital Psychiatry 2004 3 10 This article is available from http content 3 1 10 2004 Fountoulakis et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose provided this notice is preserved along with the article s original URL. Abstract Introduction The current study is a short report of 3 cases of bipolar patients. Material and methods Three bipolar patients were prospectively followed up. All were partial responders to lithium therapy alone and unresponsive to other therapies anticonvulsants antidepressants typical antipsychotics various combinations . Results All manifested complete remission of symptoms after combination therapy with lithium plasma levels above mEq lt plus 1-3 mg of risperidone daily. The two of them are still free of symptomatology during the maintenance period for 28 and 38 months respectively. The third patient after several months during which she was free of symptomatology discontinued lithium against the psychiatrist s advise and received only 3 mg of risperidone daily. For the next 15 months the patient was under risperidone monotherapy and free of symptomatology. She discontinued therapy to become pregnant the illness recurred several times during pregnancy and after the .
