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[Chronic depressive syndrome--characteristics and therapeutic possibilities]
E Umann1, H Kulawik, A Rindtorff
1Lehrstuhl Psychiatrie, Bereichs Medizin (Charité), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Abstract:
The files of 322 patients with depressive syndromes in the period 1978-1987, covering 413 in-patient treatments, revealed therapeutic factors whose tendency is to lengthen the period of hospitalisation. There is no indication of therapeutic factors with a tendency to reduce the length of time spent in hospital. Lithium treatment was again shown to increase the hospital stay (chronicity of the overall disorder), others being (treatment with/Netofenazat), electric shock treatment during the initial disorder, and optimum simultaneous treatment with thymoleptics.
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