Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica
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Acta Psychiatr Scand · Oct 2005
Case ReportsTorsade de pointes in a patient with complex medical and psychiatric conditions receiving low-dose quetiapine.
Describe potential cardiac complications of low-dose quetiapine and other atypical antipsychotic drugs. ⋯ Atypical antipsychotic drug administration, when accompanied by risk factors, may contribute to cardiac arrhythmias including torsade de pointes.
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Acta Psychiatr Scand · Aug 2005
ReviewBipolar disorder in women: reproductive events and treatment considerations.
Bipolar disorders are prevalent in women. Women with bipolar disorder often present with different clinical features than men. Reproductive events and hormonal treatments may impact the course of bipolar disorder. Our main objectives are to i) assess the impact of reproductive events on the course of the disorder, and ii) to discuss the relationships between reproductive events and psychiatric treatments. ⋯ We urgently need further study in these areas to deliver care that is appropriate to women with bipolar disorder.
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Acta Psychiatr Scand · Apr 2005
Risk factors associated with migraine or chronic daily headache in out-patients with major depressive disorder.
This study investigated independent comorbidities and factors associated with migraine and chronic daily headache (CDH) in out-patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). ⋯ For MDD patients with a higher depressive severity and longer duration of MDE, especially female gender, surveillance of migraine and CDH might be indicated.
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In other medical fields, 'shared decision making' (a strategy for including patients in therapeutic decision processes) has been studied for several years now. This survey presents the potential of shared decision making for psychiatry. ⋯ Evidence that shared decision making can be successfully practiced in psychiatry would contribute to an improved inclusion of psychiatric patients in therapeutic decisions and thereby help to implement basic rights of a group of patients who have not sufficiently benefited from consumer empowerment in other medical fields.