A rare adverse drug reaction to escitalopram

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are considered to be low side effect profile drugs as compared to conventional antidepressants. The primary care physicians should be aware of the rare and depressing side effect of these drugs when they are prescribed in young, nonpregnant females. Mastalgia...

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Autores principales: Pathania, Monika, Goel, Bhomik, Dhamija, Puneet, Kant, Ravi, Dhar, Minakshi, Mittal, Sunita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6060945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30090797
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_105_17
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author Pathania, Monika
Goel, Bhomik
Dhamija, Puneet
Kant, Ravi
Dhar, Minakshi
Mittal, Sunita
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description Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are considered to be low side effect profile drugs as compared to conventional antidepressants. The primary care physicians should be aware of the rare and depressing side effect of these drugs when they are prescribed in young, nonpregnant females. Mastalgia has been reported in <1% of the cases. Galactorrhea as an adverse drug reaction has been reported in very few case reports, and the frequency of this side effect is unknown.
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spelling pubmed-60609452018-08-08 A rare adverse drug reaction to escitalopram Pathania, Monika Goel, Bhomik Dhamija, Puneet Kant, Ravi Dhar, Minakshi Mittal, Sunita J Family Med Prim Care Case Report Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are considered to be low side effect profile drugs as compared to conventional antidepressants. The primary care physicians should be aware of the rare and depressing side effect of these drugs when they are prescribed in young, nonpregnant females. Mastalgia has been reported in <1% of the cases. Galactorrhea as an adverse drug reaction has been reported in very few case reports, and the frequency of this side effect is unknown. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6060945/ /pubmed/30090797 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_105_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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