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BRADYCARDIA DURING CITALOPRAM TREATMENT: A CASE REPORT
MARIE-PASCALE FAVREa,
JUAN SZTAJZELb
and GILLES BERTSCHYa,
f1
a Department of Psychiatry,
University of Geneva, Belle-Ide@a3e, 1225 Che@a5ne-Bourg, Geneva,
Switzerland
b Medical Policlinics, University of
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Accepted 13 October 1998. ; Available
online 26 March 2002.
The authors report the case of a 47-year-old depressive woman treated with citalopram 20 mg day-1for 3 months who presented a marked sinus bradycardia (34 beats/min) 11 days after the citalopram dose was increased to 40 mg day-1. The bradycardia was clinically asymptomatic and disappeared within 24 h after citalopram was stopped. Citalopram blood levels were in the usual therapeutic range.
Author Keywords: citalopram; bradycardia
f1 Corresponding author.
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Volume 39, Issue 2 , February 1999, Pages 149-150 |
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