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Guideline [Argentine consensus on the treatment of bipolar disorders] 2005
Vázquez GH, Strejilevich S, García Bonetto G, Cetkovich-Bakmas M, Zaratiegui R, Lagomarsino A, Goldchluk A, Kalina E, Herbst L, Gutiérrez B, Anonymous00416. · Departamento de Neurociencias, Universidad de Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina. · Vertex. · Pubmed #16601825 No free full text.
Abstract: The consensus guidelines of argentine experts in the treatment of bipolar disorders are the result of three days of work of the 10 main local experts under the organization of the Argentine Association of Biological Psychiatry (AAPB). It was adopted a mixed criterion for its preparation: all the recent data of the evidence medicine based published until now were discussed and were balanced with the knowledge acquired from clinical experience of the local experts on the bipolar field. It presents general recommendations and suggested therapeutic sequences for the phase of maintenance, the manic/hypomanic or mixed episode and the depressive episode. These have been divided according to the classification in type I and II; with or without rapid cycling. Since the group of experts identified the delay and miss-diagnoses like the most important barrier for a suitable treatment enclosed a series of recommendations for differential diagnosis of bipolar disorders.
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Article [Pharmacological treatment of Bipolar Depression] 2003
García Bonetto G. · No affiliation provided · Vertex. · Pubmed #12888855 No free full text.
Abstract: The Bipolar Depression has a unique clinical importance. Because of its incidence on the health in general and on the mood disorders in particular, it is necessary to deep the discussion about its treatment. Because of the lack of control clinical trials for this kind of patients it becomes a high controversial subject, making very often the resort to Experts Consensus Guidelines, based on the medicine based on experience rather than medicine based on evidence. In this article, two recently published algorithms of treatment are presented as well as some commentaries on them.
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Article [Some concepts about the treatment of the depressive episode in bipolar disorder] 2001
García Bonetto G. · Hospital Neuropsiquiátrico Provincial, Córdoba, Clínica "Saint Michel". · Vertex. · Pubmed #11907593 No free full text.
Abstract: A frequent clinical mistake is to diagnose a Depressive Episode of the Bipolar Disorder as a Unipolar Depression. This, generally, has iatrogenic consequences for the patient. In this article the approaches are revised for a correct diagnosis and also an algorithm for an appropriate treatment is suggested.
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