Cognitive Impairment and Older Age Bipolar Disorder

Aug 25, 2017 by in GERIATRICS Comments Off on Cognitive Impairment and Older Age Bipolar Disorder

Fig. 6.1 Potential interactive and non-interactive effects of age and bipolar disease (used with permission from Weisenbach et al. [4]) In their cross-sectional study of young and late middle-aged patients with…

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Clinical Assessment of Older Adults with Bipolar Disorder

Aug 25, 2017 by in GERIATRICS Comments Off on Clinical Assessment of Older Adults with Bipolar Disorder

Neurological Dementia/neurocognitive disorders Traumatic brain injury Epilepsy Infectious encephalitis Cerebrovascular disease Brain tumors Movement disorders Systemic Infections Thyroid abnormalities Illicit Drugs: i.e., cocaine Medication Antidepressants Benzodiazepines Corticosteroids Thyroid replacements Dopamine…

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Lithium in Older Age Bipolar Disorder

Aug 25, 2017 by in GERIATRICS Comments Off on Lithium in Older Age Bipolar Disorder

Age category (years) Target lithium levela (mmol/L) Approximate lithium daily doseb (mg/day) Starting doseb (mg/day) 45–59 0.4–0.8 600–1200 300–450 60–79 0.4–0.8 300–600 150 80–95 0.4–0.6 150–300 150 aThe target lithium…

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Clinical Management of Older Age Bipolar Disorder

Aug 25, 2017 by in GERIATRICS Comments Off on Clinical Management of Older Age Bipolar Disorder

Increase No effect Decrease Lithium Loop diuretics Aspirin Mannitol Thiazide diuretics Paracetamol Aminophylline Calcium blockers Nefazodone Theophylline ACE inhibitors Mirtazepine AT II receptor blockers Valproate COX2 inhibitors Lamotrigine Trimethoprim Amisulpride…

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Older Age Bipolar Disorder and Substance Use

Aug 25, 2017 by in GERIATRICS Comments Off on Older Age Bipolar Disorder and Substance Use

© Springer International Publishing AG 2017Susan W. Lehmann and Brent P. Forester (eds.)Bipolar Disorder in Older Age Patients10.1007/978-3-319-48912-4_5 5. Older Age Bipolar Disorder and Substance Use Chaya Bhuvaneswaran1  , Rita Hargrave2   and E. Sherwood Brown3   (1) 35 Morrill Street,…

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The Role of PET/CT in Prostate Cancer Management

Aug 19, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on The Role of PET/CT in Prostate Cancer Management

Fig. 5.1 A normal 18F-choline PET scan (MIP image). Physiological uptake of choline is present in the salivary glands, liver, spleen, kidneys, bowel and bladder with low-grade normal bone marrow…

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Epidemiology and Clinical Features

Aug 19, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on Epidemiology and Clinical Features

Fig. 1.1 Estimated age-standardised rates (World) per 100,000 [2] Fig. 1.2 Trends in incidence of prostate cancer in selected countries: age-standardised rate (W) per 100,000 [2] Fig. 1.3 The 20…

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Pathology of Prostate Cancer

Aug 19, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on Pathology of Prostate Cancer

Fig. 2.1 Immunohistochemistry demonstrates basal cells (stained brown with marker 34betaE12) in benign glands, while the surrounding malignant glands are negative 2.3 Immunohistochemistry The immunostains commonly used are p63 (nuclear…

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