Plasma Lithium Levels and Therapeutic Outcome in the Prophylaxis of Affective Disorders: A Retrospective Study
- 1 June 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 140 (6), 619-622
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.140.6.619
Abstract
Summary: Patients receiving prophylactic lithium therapy for primary affective disorder during a four year period were studied for recurrence of affective illness. Patients who had affective episodes during this period did not differ from those who remained well in age, sex or diagnosis. Those with a favourable outcome had spent significantly less time at serum lithium levels above 0.9 mmol/litre than those who had a recurrence of affective episodes.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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