Venlafaxine-Induced Orthostatic Hypotension in a Geriatric Patient

Venlafaxine-Induced Orthostatic Hypotension in a Geriatric Patient

Venlafaxine is not usually associated with risk of orthostatic hypotension. A 65-year-old US Caucasian female taking 225 mg/day of venlafaxine extended-release developed symptomatic orthostatic hypotension. The systolic and diastolic blood pressure dropped by 25 and 18 mm Hg, respectively, from supine position to standing position within 3 minutes. The patient was otherwise healthy and the orth...

Venlafaxine - Induced Orthostatic Hypotension

facets. BDD, whether delusional or nondelusional, responds to antidepressants, particularly SRIs. A recent double-blind trial comparing clomipramine with desipramine demonstrated the efficacy of the former irrespective of whether the patients had insight or held their dysmorphic perception with delusional intensity (Hollander etal., 1999). Moreover, there are reports of cases resistant to pimoz...

Olanzapine-induced Orthostatic Hypotension

Olanzapine is an atypical antipsychotic which is efficacious in the treatment of schizophrenia. The adverse effect profile for olanzapine is benign except for higher rates of metabolic events. Orthostatic hypotension is less commonly reported with olanzapine as compared to first-generation and few atypical antipsychotics. We report a case where olanzapine, in a dose dependent fashion, caused tr...

Orthostatic hypotension in an elderly patient.

Orthostatic hypotension.

A 29-year-old white woman (weight, 1211b; height, 5 ft 6 in.) was referred to the Hypertension Unit of Massachusetts General Hospital in December 1984. She had been athletic and apparently in excellent health until September 1979 when she contracted an upper respiratory tract infection associated with wheezing. She was treated with prednisone for 5 days with resolution of the symptoms but later...