title: [Argentine consensus on the treatment of bipolar disorders].
abstract: The consensus guidelines of argentine experts in the treatment of bipolar disorders are the result of three days of work of the 10 main local experts under the organization of the Argentine Association of Biological Psychiatry (AAPB). It was adopted a mixed criterion for its preparation: all the recent data of the evidence medicine based published until now were discussed and were balanced with the knowledge acquired from clinical experience of the local experts on the bipolar field. It presents general recommendations and suggested therapeutic sequences for the phase of maintenance, the manic/hypomanic or mixed episode and the depressive episode. These have been divided according to the classification in type I and II; with or without rapid cycling. Since the group of experts identified the delay and miss-diagnoses like the most important barrier for a suitable treatment enclosed a series of recommendations for differential diagnosis of bipolar disorders.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Neurociencias, Universidad de Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina. gvazquez@palermo.edu
authors.forename: Gustavo Héctor
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Vázquez
authors.forename: Sergio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Strejilevich
authors.forename: Gerardo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: García Bonetto
authors.forename: Marcelo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cetkovich-Bakmas
authors.forename: Rodolfo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zaratiegui
authors.forename: Alejandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lagomarsino
authors.forename: Aníbal
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Goldchluk
authors.forename: Eduardo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kalina
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Herbst
authors.forename: Benigno
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gutiérrez
mesh_terms: D001118:Argentina; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D003663:Decision Trees; D006801:Humans