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ArticleInternational clinical psychopharmacology2025

Prospective, comparative, pilot study of maintenance treatment in comorbid bipolar disorders with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Hernán F Guillen-Burgos, Juan F Gálvez-Flórez, Sergio Moreno-Lopez, Angela T H Kwan, Roger S McIntyre

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Article in International clinical psychopharmacology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Lurasidone response in bipolar type I depression with childhood trauma exposure.The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Hernán F Guillen-BurgosUniversidad El Bosque, Faculty of Medicine, Center for Clinical and Translational Research, Bogotá D.C.
Juan F Gálvez-FlórezUniversidad El Bosque, Faculty of Medicine, Center for Clinical and Translational Research, Bogotá D.C.
Sergio Moreno-LopezUniversidad de Los Andes, Faculty of Medicine, Bogotá D.C, Colombia.
Angela T H KwanFaculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa.
Roger S McIntyreMood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit, University Health Network.
Hospital Universitario San Ignacio · COUniversidad de Los Andes · COUniversity of Ottawa · CAUniversity of Toronto · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is limited real-world evidence that evaluates the impact of monotherapy vs. combination therapy as a maintenance treatment in comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in bipolar disorder (BD). Our aim was to compare lithium vs. lithium plus quetiapine in maintenance treatment in a sample of comorbid BD with PTSD. An exploratory, comparative pilot study over a 28-week period in 34 comorbid BD with PTSD patients was performed to compare monotherapy (n = 18) vs. combination therapy (n = 16) during maintenance treatment. The primary outcome was the time to event of recurrence of any mood episode. The secondary outcomes were regarding change from the baseline to endpoint in the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) and Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS). A Cox regression, Kaplan-Meir survival, and mixed-effects model for repeated measures analyses were performed. Lithium plus quetiapine reduces the risk of recurrence of any mood episode. There are significant differences between baseline and endpoint for YMRS, MADRS, and CGI-BP scales in the sample. In this pilot, exploratory analysis, combination therapy during maintenance treatment for comorbid BD with PTSD may be effective in preventing recurrences of any type of mood episode.

Indexed as

Antimanic AgentsAntipsychotic AgentsBipolar DisorderLithium CompoundsQuetiapine FumarateStress Disorders, Post-TraumaticAdultComorbidityDrug Therapy, CombinationFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPilot ProjectsProspective StudiesPsychiatric Status Rating ScalesAntimanic AgentsAntipsychotic AgentsLithium CompoundsQuetiapine Fumarate

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PMID38381901
PMCPMC11781547
OpenAlexW4391991450

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