Enuresis and tricyclic antidepressants.

Tricyclic antidepressants.

Tricyclic antidepressants.

Correspondence BRiTISH 301 Tricyclic Antidepressants SIR,-I am worried by one sentence in the article on tricyclic antidepressants (13 April, p. 102): "Jaundice, which is very uncommon , is of the cholestatic type similar to that found in chlorpromazine." This is misleading. Jaundice is one of the more frequent side-effects reported from imipramine and imitrip-tyline, the most widely used membe...

Pharmacokinetics of Tricyclic Antidepressants

This review, together with Part 1 (Gun. Chem. 26: 5-17, 1980), summarizes progress in measurement of tricyclic antidepressants in biological fluids and the application of the methodology to Clinical practice. For many of the older drugs and for all of the new-generation antidepressants, further studies are required to delineate the precise relationship between plasma concentration and clinical ...

Allergy, Depression and Tricyclic Antidepressants

INTRODUCTION Psychiatrists have been very reluctant to accept the idea that depressions, which they know so well, may be caused by allergies to common environmental molecules such as foods, airborne particles, and chemicals in water. When patients were depressed and anxious, and at the same time suffered from diseases accepted as allergic, psychosomatic explanations were used. This usually mean...

lacental Passage of Tricyclic Antidepressants

ackground: The use of antidepressants during pregnancy continues to garner considerable attention, though there are limited nvestigations that have sought to quantify fetal exposure. ethods: Maternal and umbilical cord sera were collected at delivery from ten women taking nortriptyline and seven taking lomipramine. Placental passage was calculated as the ratio of umbilical cord to maternal seru...