The Comparison of the Effectiveness  of Thiothixene and Risperidone as a  Combination with Lithium for the Treatm ent of Patients with Bipolar Disorder

Shahrzad Mazhari; Hasan Ziaadini; Nooshin Parvaresh; Maryam Fazli

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The Comparison of the Effectiveness of Thiothixene and Risperidone as a Combination with Lithium for the Treatm ent of Patients with Bipolar Disorder

Author(s):

Shahrzad Mazhari¹,

Hasan Ziaadini²,

Nooshin Parvaresh²,

Maryam Fazli^3,*

2Department of Psychiatry, Kerman Univer sity of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

2Kerman Neuroscience Research Center, Department of Psychi atry, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

3Resident of Psychiatry, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Zahedan Journal of Research in Medical Sciences:Vol. 16, issue 10(suppl)

Published online:Jan 22, 2014

Article type:Research Article

Received:Feb 28, 2013

Accepted:May 01, 2013

How to Cite:Shahrzad MazhariHasan ZiaadiniNooshin Parvaresh Maryam FazliThe Comparison of the Effectiveness of Thiothixene and Risperidone as a Combination with Lithium for the Treatm ent of Patients with Bipolar Disorder.Zahedan J Res Med Sci.16(10(suppl)):null-null.

Abstract

Background: The effectiveness of various atypical antipsychotics in the treatment of acute mania is reported repeatedly, but those for typical antipsychotics are restricted to haloperidol and chlorpromazine. As there is a comparative importance of side effects for typical and atypical antipsychotics, we decided to compare the therapeutic effect of thiothixene and risperidone as a combination with lithium for the treatment of patients with bipolar disorder.

Materials and Methods: In 8 week double-blind clinical trial, 84 patients with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder were randomized for treatment with lithium plus thiothixene (N=42) or lithium plus risperidone (N=42). Manic, positive-negative symptoms, anxiety and depression were measured bi-weekly with Young Mania Rating, positive and negative symptom scale (PANSS) and Hamilton rating scale score. Fasting blood sugar, weight, general side effects and extrapyramidal symptoms were also evaluated. The measures analyzed using SPSS-17 software. To compare demographic characteristics t-test, χ2 test and fixed effects method were used. A fixed effects method was applied to omit missing data effects.

Results: There was no significant difference between the thiothixene and risperidone groups in Young mania rating scale and other outcome measures during the 8 week trial. There was no significant difference in weight, blood sugar and clinical global impression (CGI) between groups.

Conclusion: Thiothixene is as effective as risperidone in the improvement of manic and sychotic symptoms. There was no significant difference with risperidone in developing extrapyramidal symptoms, so it can be used as an appropriate combination with lithium for the treatment of bipolar patients in psychotic manic episode.

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