Psychotic mania associated with mefloquine in a bipolar patient

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 550-551

  Brumbaugh, Meredith ^a   Price, Paul ^a   Fagan, Nancy ^a   Hsieh, Hudson ^a  

^a ALEGENT HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar disorder; Malaria; Mefloquine; Psychosis

Indexed keywords

ESKALITH CR; ESZOPICLONE; LITHIUM CARBONATE; MEFLOQUINE; QUETIAPINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEDTIME DOSAGE; BIPOLAR I DISORDER; BIPOLAR MANIA; CASE REPORT; DELUSIONAL DISORDER; EUPHORIA; GRANDIOSE DELUSION; HUMAN; LEISURE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; MENTAL DISEASE; MORNING DOSAGE; PARANOIA; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

ANTIMALARIALS; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; LITHIUM; MALARIA; MALE; MEFLOQUINE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 43149125411     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e318167a9e2     Document Type: Article

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