SECONDARY MANIA OCCURRING TWICE IN AN ELDERLY PATIENT FOLLOWING SURGERY CARRIED OUT UNDER LOCAL-ANESTHESIA

Authors
CLARK JE CLUNIE E
Citation
Je. Clark et E. Clunie, SECONDARY MANIA OCCURRING TWICE IN AN ELDERLY PATIENT FOLLOWING SURGERY CARRIED OUT UNDER LOCAL-ANESTHESIA, Journal of drug development and clinical practice, 8(1), 1996, pp. 49-52
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Journal title
Journal of drug development and clinical practice → ACNP
ISSN journal
13579215
Volume
8
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
49 - 52
Database
ISI
SICI code
1357-9215(1996)8:1<49:SMOTIA>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
A case secondary mania occurring in a 64-year-old women on two separat e occasions following surgery under local lignocaine anaesthesia is re ported. The episodes of mania were temporally related to the surgery a nd fulfilled DSM-III-R criteria. The possibility of a reaction to lign ocaine is discussed and it is concluded that the mania was secondary t o the physical insult of the surgical intervention.