She was 6 days without antipsychotic drugs, she took only lorazepam 10-15mg daily, subsequently she developed a relapse of psychotic symptoms with strong suicidal ideation and multiple acts of selfharming. White blood cell count started to rise to 2300/mm3 within those 6 days. Than she was ...
Referring to a few other case reports of early relapse after an initial response to atypical antipsychotics other than olanzapine, the possibility is discussed that rapid displacement of these drugs due to loose binding could play a role in early relapse.A. E. Kostakoǧlu...
olanzapine 5 to 20 mg/day was significantly superior to haloperidol 5 to 20 mg/day in overall improvements in psychopathology rating scales and in the treatment of depressive and negative symptoms, and was comparable in effects on positive psychotic symptoms. The 1-year risk of relapse (rehospita...
oral olanzapine is a useful first-line or adjunctive agent for both the acute treatment of manic episodes and the long-term prevention of relapse into manic, depressive or mixed episodes associated with bipolar I disorder.
Maintenance Treatment— The effectiveness of oral olanzapine, 10 mg/day to 20 mg/day, in maintaining treatment response in schizophrenic patients who had been stable on olanzapine for approximately 8 weeks and were then followed for relapse has been demonstrated in a placebo-controlled trial [see ...
Relapses were defined as any change in the patient's mental state, such as a recurrence of psychotic symptoms or changes in antipsychotic medication due to worsening of the patient's mental state as reported in the notes. If patients relapsed, the rationale for the relapse including poor compli...
Maintenance Treatment— The effectiveness of oral olanzapine, 10 mg/day to 20 mg/day, in maintaining treatment response in schizophrenic patients who had been stable on olanzapine for approximately 8 weeks and were then followed for relapse has been demonstrated in a placebo-controlled trial [see ...
In addition to lithium severalantipsychoticsare also indicated for the management of acute mania, including both first- and second-generation drugs. Given the similarities between psychotic symptoms and mania, the usefulness of antipsychotics is not really surprising and it is suggested that t...
The clinical characteristics including the number of patients who experienced a recurrence of psychotic symptoms with the various olanzapine formulations are contained in Figure 1. SUGGESTED for you (Enlarge Image) Figure 1. Clinical findings for the various olanzapine formulations among 85 outpatients. ...
OBJECTIVE: The authors compared the efficacy of olanzapine and lithium in the prevention of mood episode relapse/recurrence. METHOD: Patients with a diagno... M Tohen,W Greil,JR Calabrese,... - 《Am J Psychiatry》 被引量: 886发表: 2005年 Efficacy of olanzapine in combination with valproate...