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The clinical-familial correlates and naturalistic outcome of panic-disorder-agoraphobia with and without lifetime bipolar II comorbidity by Cristina Toni; Giulio Perugi; Franco Frare; Giuseppe Tusini; Konstantinos N Fountoulakis; Kareen K Akiskal; Hagop S Akiskal is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Background Much of the literature on panic disorder (PD)-bipolar disorder (BP) cormorbidity concerns BP-I. This literature emphasizes the difficulties encountered in pharmacologic treatment and outcome when such comorbidity is present. The present report explores these issues with respect to BP-II. ## Methods The sample comprised 326 outpatients (aged 34.5 ± 11.5 years old; 222 females) with Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 3rd edn, revised (DSM-III-R) PD-agoraphobia; among them 52 subjects (16%) were affected by lifetime comorbidity with BP-II. Patients were evaluated by means of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID), the Panic-Agoraphobia Interview, and the Longitudinal Interview Follow-up Examination (Life-Up) and treated according to routine clinical practice at the University of Pisa, Italy, for a period of 3 years. Clinical and course features were compared between subjects with and without BP-II. All patients received the clinicians' choice of antidepressants and, in the case of the subsample with BP-II, mood stabilizers (for example, valproate, lithium) were among the mainstays of treatment. ## Results In comparison to patients without
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- Author
- Cristina Toni; Giulio Perugi; Franco Frare; Giuseppe Tusini; Konstantinos N Fountoulakis; Kareen K Akiskal; Hagop S Akiskal
- Publisher
- BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); [London]: BioMed Central, 2005-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 1744-859X)
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)