Review Article
Unipolar Mania: Recent Updates and Review of the Literature
Table 3
(a) Retrospective chart review-based studies assessing the course of UM. (b) Diagnostic stability of UM in prospective studies.
(a) |
| Author (year) | Duration of illness (in years) | Comment |
| Abrams and Taylor (1974) [13] | 10.86 | — |
| Abrams et al. (1979) [14] | 11.7 | — |
| Nurnberger et al. (1979) [18] | — | 29% of patients converted to BD over follow-up of 4 months. |
| Perris (1982) [10] | — | Polarity changes from mania to depression after 3rd episode and rare after 8th episode. |
| Srinivasan et al. (1982) [19] | 5 | — |
| Khanna et al. (1992) [20] | 9.5 | — |
| Avasthi et al. (1996) [21] | 7 | — |
| Aghanwa (2001) [22] | 16.6 | — |
| Yazici et al. (2002) [23] | 12 | — |
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(b) |
| Author | Duration of follow-up | Findings |
| Makanjoula (1985) [26] | Five years | Only 13 out of 104 patients were found to suffer from bipolar disorder. |
| Solomon et al. (2003) [30] | 20 years | Seven out of 27 (26%) patients continued to have diagnosis of unipolar mania. |
| Yazici et al. (2008) [41] | Seven years | 30 out of initial 272 patients continued to be unipolar maniacs. |
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