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Risk of puerperal and non-puerperal recurrence of illness following bipolar affective puerperal (post-partum) psychosis.
The clinical value of information on the risk of future psychiatric illness in women who have experienced puerperal (post-partum) psychosis has been limited by inconsistencies in terminology and nosology. Here we report rates of subsequent puerperal and non-puerperal episodes, in a well characterised sample of women diagnosed with clearly defined bipolar affective puerperal psychosis (n=103). O...
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OBJECTIVE To examine the nature of the earliest reported symptoms in women who develop a bipolar affective puerperal psychosis (PP). DESIGN A retrospective interview study. SETTING Women were recruited for clinical and molecular genetic studies of PP from a national PP network, articles in the national press and referrals from UK specialist perinatal psychiatry services. SAMPLE One hundre...
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BACKGROUND Previous cross-sectional studies have highlighted a number of obstetric variables that may be associated with the development of broadly defined puerperal (post-partum) psychosis. These include: (a) primiparity, (b) pregnancy complications, (c) delivery complications, (d) Caesarean section, (e) female baby and (f) shorter gestation period. AIMS To examine these risk factors in wome...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
سال: 1977
ISSN: 0140-0789,2514-9954
DOI: 10.1192/pb.1.5.6