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Lithium als adjuvans bij een therapie-resistente depressie: een casus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

J. Dirkx
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Summary

Lithium was added to imipramine in case of a 55-year old depressed woman who didn't respond to imipramine alone. There was a clear improvement within a few days on 900 mg lithium carbonate a day (lithium plasmalevel 0.9 mmol/l). However when after two weeks the lithium dose was reduced to 600 mg a day (lithium plasmalevel 0.5 mmol/l), an almost immediate relapse followed. On resuming lithium in the old dose the depression disappeared again. After four weeks the second attempt at reducing and eventually stopping the lithium appeared to be successful. Half a year after cessation of lithium imipramine was also stopped. More than a year afterwards there hasn't been a depression again.

In this case, after a fast potentiation of imipramine by lithium, a relapse followed when the lithium dose was reduced. It seems to be that even a high and successful starting dose of lithium needs to be continued for some time in order to prevent a relapse.

Keywords

lithiumantidepressantaugmentationdoselength of therapylithiumantidepressivaadjuvansdoseringtherapieduur
Type
Research Article
Information
Acta Neuropsychiatrica , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , June 1991 , pp. 30 - 33
Copyright
Copyright © Scandinavian College of Neuropsychopharmacology 1991

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