THYROID HORMONES AS A THIRD LINE OF AUGMENTATION MEDICATION IN TREATMENT-RESISTANT DEPRESSION.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Clinical or subclinical hypothyroidism dictates the severity of depressive episodes and more frequently overlaps psychotic phenomenology. There are also major depressive episodes resistant to treatment in patients with euthyroidism, in which supplementation of antidepressant medication with thyroid hormones is beneficial.

Material

Systematization of meta-analyses from perspectives: hypothyroidism and depression, autoimmune and depression pathology, gestational and puerperal pathology in association with hormonal and dispositional changes, presentation of therapeutic schemes.

Results

Hypothyroidism is more commonly comorbid with major depression in women. It associates the need for hospitalizations, psychotic phenomenology, resistance to treatment, somatic

SUBMITTER: Trifu S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7535887 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature