Treatment-resistant mania with primary hypothyroidism: a case of recovery after levothyroxine

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J Balldin¹, U Berggren, E Rybo

¹Department of Psychiatry, University of Gothenburg, St. Jörgen's Hospital, Sweden.

The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

|December 1, 1987

Abstract:

A manic-depressive woman was unresponsive to treatment with lithium and neuroleptics during a period of mania. Additional levothyroxine treatment of her primary hypothyroidism resulted in rapid and complete recovery from her mania.

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