Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors combined with venlafaxine in depressed patients who had partial response to venlafaxine: four cases
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Tarih
2003
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Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd
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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
Özet
One third of depressive patients show partial or no response to antidepressant treatment. With partial or nonresponders, treatment strategies are as follows: switching to another antidepressant, augmenting with other psychotropic agents, or combining antidepressants. There are no data in the literature about the positive effect of combining venlafaxine with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). In this report, the presented cases had been on at least two different classes of antidepressant medication (or combination of antidepressants) for an adequate time and dose. They showed only a partial response to high dose of venlafaxine but improved after the addition of an SSRI (sertraline, citalopram, or paroxetine) to venlafaxine. The combination treatment was well tolerated in all of the cases. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.
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combination treatment, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, treatment resistant depression, venlafaxine
Kaynak
Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry
WoS Q Değeri
Q2
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N/A
Cilt
27
Sayı
5
