Mixed mania followed by a short duration of corticosteroid administration in a patient with peripheral facial palsy: a case report
Hakan Balıbey, Halit Yaşar, Hakan Tekeli.
Abstract
Corticosteroids are routinely used in the treatment of peripheral facial palsy. Affective symptoms have been reported as a possible side effect due to use of corticosteroids. After corticosteroid use psychiatric symptoms are often seen in the first weeks. More than half of them are seen in the first two weeks. Euphoria and hypomania are reported as the most common side effects of short-term steroid therapy and in chronic use depression is observed more frequently than mania. Lithium and olanzapine are used effectively in the management of psychosis related to the use of corticosteroids. Clinical aspects and response to olanzapine and lithium treatment have been discussed in a patient with peripherial facial palsy, who developed mixed mania due to short term use of corticosteroid treatment.
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