Weight change during long-term treatment with lurasidone

Long-Term Weight Change after Initiating Second-Generation Antidepressants.

(1) OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between the choice of second-generation antidepressant drug treatment and long-term weight change; (2) METHODS: We conducted a retrospective cohort study to investigate the relationship between choice of antidepressant medication and weight change at two years among adult patients with a new antidepressant treatment episode between January, 2006 and Oc...

PM413. Metabolic Syndrome in Patients With Schizophrenia Receiving Long-Term Treatment With Lurasidone, Quetiapine XR, or Risperidone

Silicate Urolithiasis during Long-Term Treatment with Zonisamide

Silicate urinary calculi are rare in humans, with an incidence of 0.2% of all urinary calculi. Most cases were related to excess ingestion of silicate, typically by taking magnesium trisilicate as an antacid for peptic ulcers over a long period of time; however, there also existed unrelated cases, whose mechanism of development remains unclear. On the other hand, zonisamide, a newer antiepilept...

Recovery of adrenocortical function during long-term treatment with corticosteroids.

The recovery of adrenocortical function during long-term corticosteroid treatment in a group of patients with asthmatic bronchitis was compared with that in a group of patients with sarcoidosis. At corresponding dosages of prednisone basal adrenocortical function as well as adrenocortical response to tetracosactrin stimulation was higher in the asthma patients than in those with sarcoidosis.The...

Lurasidone in the Long‐term Treatment of Patients with Bipolar Disorder: a 24‐week Open‐label Extension Study

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate the safety and tolerability of 6 months of open-label, uncontrolled extension treatment with lurasidone in patients with a diagnosis of bipolar depression who completed 6 weeks of acute treatment. METHODS Patients completing 6 weeks of double-blind placebo-controlled treatment with either lurasidone monotherapy (one study) or adjunctive therapy...