Association of low dose trazodone treatment with aggravated angle-closure glaucoma

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 127-128

  Pae, Chi Un ^a   Lee, Chang Uk ^a   Lee, Soo Jung ^a   Lee, Chul ^a   Paik, In Ho ^a  

^a The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; PILOCARPINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TIMOLOL; TRAZODONE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; ANTICHOLINERGIC EFFECT; CASE REPORT; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LETTER; MOOD DISORDER; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PRIAPISM; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY;

ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; ANXIETY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; TRAZODONE;

EID: 0037324420     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.2003.01089.x     Document Type: Letter

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