Unilateral Galactorrhea Associated with Low-dose Escitalopram

Galactorrhea is a rare adverse effect of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor treatment. We report a 27-year-old woman who developed unilateral breast engorgement with galactorrhea 18 days after initiation of escitalopram (10 mg/day). The symptom remitted 7 days after withdrawal of escitalopram an...

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Autores principales: Ravi, P. Bangalore, Guruprasad, K. G., Andrade, Chittaranjan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4100431/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25035569
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.135398
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author Ravi, P. Bangalore
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description Galactorrhea is a rare adverse effect of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor treatment. We report a 27-year-old woman who developed unilateral breast engorgement with galactorrhea 18 days after initiation of escitalopram (10 mg/day). The symptom remitted 7 days after withdrawal of escitalopram and did not subsequently recur during maintenance therapy with agomelatine (25 mg/day).
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spelling pubmed-41004312014-07-17 Unilateral Galactorrhea Associated with Low-dose Escitalopram Ravi, P. Bangalore Guruprasad, K. G. Andrade, Chittaranjan Indian J Psychol Med Case Report Galactorrhea is a rare adverse effect of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor treatment. We report a 27-year-old woman who developed unilateral breast engorgement with galactorrhea 18 days after initiation of escitalopram (10 mg/day). The symptom remitted 7 days after withdrawal of escitalopram and did not subsequently recur during maintenance therapy with agomelatine (25 mg/day). Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4100431/ /pubmed/25035569 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.135398 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4100431/
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