Acute Mania Associated With Levetiracetam Treatment

Mania Associated with Quetiapine Treatment 2

The use of atypical antipsychotics in treatment of psychiatric diseases is getting more widespread every day. These drugs are called atypical because they provide improvement not only in the positive symptoms, but also in negative symptoms. Also, they have less adverse effects on the extrapyramidal system and tardive dyskinesia, and they do not cause hyperprolactinemia (Stahl 2008). All atypica...

Treatment guidelines for acute mania

Nowadays, psychiatrists have a wide range of treatment choices to treat acute mania. Introduction of atypical antipsychotics in the last decade has increased the range of available treatments. A good number of double-blind randomized clinical trials have supported the efficacy of several atypicals, (aripiprazole, olanzapine, quetiapine, risperidone, ziprasidone) both as monotherapy and in combi...

Acute and long-term treatment of mania

The treatment of mania starts with a correct diagnosis and elementary measures to prevent risks for the patient, relatives, and others. Sometimes, compulsory admission and treatment may be required for a few days. Patients with psychotic or mixed mania may be more difficult to treat. At the present time, there is solid evidence supporting the use of lithium, the anticonvulsants valproate and ca...

Acute Liver Failure Associated with Levetiracetam and Lacosamide Combination Treatment for Unspecified Epileptic Disorder

Background and Aim. Levetiracetam is a second-generation antiepileptic drug. It is approved as an adjunctive treatment of partial onset seizures with or without secondary generalization. It is considered safe with less than 1% of patients with transient elevations of liver enzymes. Methods. We report a case of acute liver failure secondary to Levetiracetam in combination with Lacosamide documen...

Mania associated with interferon.