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Antidepressant-induced acute colonic (pseudo) obstruction (Ogilvie syndrome)

Patients on antidepressant drugs commonly complain of dryness of the mouth, tremors, blurring of vision and constipation, which are attributed to the anticholinergic action of the drugs. We report two cases of gastrointestinal complications (pseudo-intestinal obstruction), which are considered rare...

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Autor principal: Ghorpade, V.A.P.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2918323/
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.46080
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description Patients on antidepressant drugs commonly complain of dryness of the mouth, tremors, blurring of vision and constipation, which are attributed to the anticholinergic action of the drugs. We report two cases of gastrointestinal complications (pseudo-intestinal obstruction), which are considered rare according to a review of the literature. This condition is also known as Ogilvie syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-29183232010-08-13 Antidepressant-induced acute colonic (pseudo) obstruction (Ogilvie syndrome) Ghorpade, V.A.P. Indian J Psychiatry Case Report Patients on antidepressant drugs commonly complain of dryness of the mouth, tremors, blurring of vision and constipation, which are attributed to the anticholinergic action of the drugs. We report two cases of gastrointestinal complications (pseudo-intestinal obstruction), which are considered rare according to a review of the literature. This condition is also known as Ogilvie syndrome. Medknow Publications 2005 /pmc/articles/PMC2918323/ http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.46080 Text en © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Antidepressant-induced acute colonic (pseudo) obstruction (Ogilvie syndrome)
title Antidepressant-induced acute colonic (pseudo) obstruction (Ogilvie syndrome)
title_full Antidepressant-induced acute colonic (pseudo) obstruction (Ogilvie syndrome)
title_fullStr Antidepressant-induced acute colonic (pseudo) obstruction (Ogilvie syndrome)
title_full_unstemmed Antidepressant-induced acute colonic (pseudo) obstruction (Ogilvie syndrome)
title_short Antidepressant-induced acute colonic (pseudo) obstruction (Ogilvie syndrome)
title_sort antidepressant-induced acute colonic (pseudo) obstruction (ogilvie syndrome)
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2918323/
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