An interesting case of serotonin syndrome precipitated by escitalopram

Serotonin syndrome is a known entity, which occurs with multiple drugs acting on serotonergic receptors. A 73-year-old lady presented with a history of agitation, altered sensorium, and autonomic hyperactivity after starting escitalopram on therapeutic dosage for her depressive syndrome who was on s...

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Autores principales: Sanyal, Debasish, Chakraborty, Suddhendu, Bhattacharyya, Ranjan
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Drug Watch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2991707/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21189920
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.71899
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description Serotonin syndrome is a known entity, which occurs with multiple drugs acting on serotonergic receptors. A 73-year-old lady presented with a history of agitation, altered sensorium, and autonomic hyperactivity after starting escitalopram on therapeutic dosage for her depressive syndrome who was on selegiline for her parkinsonism. This syndrome with therapeutic dose escitalopram warrants the careful and judicious use of the drug especially with other serotonergic drugs, so that this serious medical complication can be avoided.
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spelling pubmed-29917072010-12-28 An interesting case of serotonin syndrome precipitated by escitalopram Sanyal, Debasish Chakraborty, Suddhendu Bhattacharyya, Ranjan Indian J Pharmacol Drug Watch Serotonin syndrome is a known entity, which occurs with multiple drugs acting on serotonergic receptors. A 73-year-old lady presented with a history of agitation, altered sensorium, and autonomic hyperactivity after starting escitalopram on therapeutic dosage for her depressive syndrome who was on selegiline for her parkinsonism. This syndrome with therapeutic dose escitalopram warrants the careful and judicious use of the drug especially with other serotonergic drugs, so that this serious medical complication can be avoided. Medknow Publications 2010-12 /pmc/articles/PMC2991707/ /pubmed/21189920 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.71899 Text en © Indian Journal of Pharmacology 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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An interesting case of serotonin syndrome precipitated by escitalopram
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2991707/
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