Diffuse Hair Loss Induced by Sertraline Use

Hair loss is a rare side effect of psychotropic drugs. The most related drug class with this side effect is the mood stabilizers. Studies reporting the sertraline-induced alopecia are limited in number. Sertraline is a potent antidepressant which inhibits the serotonin reuptake from the presynaptic...

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Autores principales: Kıvrak, Yüksel, Yağcı, İbrahim, Üstündağ, Mehmet Fatih, Özcan, Halil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4589582/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26457219
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/703453
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author Kıvrak, Yüksel
Yağcı, İbrahim
Üstündağ, Mehmet Fatih
Özcan, Halil
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description Hair loss is a rare side effect of psychotropic drugs. The most related drug class with this side effect is the mood stabilizers. Studies reporting the sertraline-induced alopecia are limited in number. Sertraline is a potent antidepressant which inhibits the serotonin reuptake from the presynaptic terminals selectively. The reason for hair loss could not be elucidated completely. Psychotropic drugs are usually considered to lead to hair loss through influencing the telogen phase of hair follicle. This paper reports a 21-year-old male with diffuse hair loss induced by sertraline use and improved by quitting the drug. To the best of our knowledge, there are no other case reports on sertraline-induced alopecia within 2 weeks.
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spelling pubmed-45895822015-10-11 Diffuse Hair Loss Induced by Sertraline Use Kıvrak, Yüksel Yağcı, İbrahim Üstündağ, Mehmet Fatih Özcan, Halil Case Rep Psychiatry Case Report Hair loss is a rare side effect of psychotropic drugs. The most related drug class with this side effect is the mood stabilizers. Studies reporting the sertraline-induced alopecia are limited in number. Sertraline is a potent antidepressant which inhibits the serotonin reuptake from the presynaptic terminals selectively. The reason for hair loss could not be elucidated completely. Psychotropic drugs are usually considered to lead to hair loss through influencing the telogen phase of hair follicle. This paper reports a 21-year-old male with diffuse hair loss induced by sertraline use and improved by quitting the drug. To the best of our knowledge, there are no other case reports on sertraline-induced alopecia within 2 weeks. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-09-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4589582/ /pubmed/26457219 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/703453 Text en Copyright © 2015 Yüksel Kıvrak et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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