Quinacrine-Associated Mania

Mania associated with interferon.

Toxic Symptoms Associated with Quinacrine Treatment

Toxic symptoms such as restlessness, staring at others, incoherent talks, shouting all day and night, etc., were observed in 16 cases of malaria patients out of 450 treated with quinacrine. The average dose in all the cases did not exceed 2.8 gm. in one course of treatment. Majority of the cases referred above developed symptoms on the 3rd to 4th day of quinacrine administration. The setiologic...

Mixed mania associated with cessation of breastfeeding

BACKGROUND This case chronicles the unique presentation of psychotic mixed mania in a female 5 months after parturition and 1 week following breastfeeding discontinuation, highlighting a rarely recognized mania risk factor that is temporally delayed from parturition: breastfeeding discontinuation. CASE PRESENTATION A 25-year-old G1P1 female with a past psychiatric history of a depressive epis...

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...

Successful pregnancy in a woman with Causos Inversus associated with hepatic mania: a Rare Case Report

Abstract Background and aim :Dextrocardia an abnormal heart condition in which the heart in the right hemothorax axis apex is located to the right .Dextrocardia is a rare malformation with an estimated 1 in 10,000 people. The aim of this study is to report a case of a pregnant woman with dextrocardia with hemangioma of the liver. Case presentation: A 30 year’s old woman, first pregnancy, gestat...