The safety of newer antidepressants in pregnancy and breastfeeding

Drug Safety

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 137-152

  Gentile, Salvatore ^a,b  

^a Dept of Mental Health ASL Salerno 1 ^*  (Italy)

^b ASL Salerno 1   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; AMFEBUTAMONE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CITALOPRAM; DESVENLAFAXINE; DIAZEPAM; DRUG METABOLITE; ESCITALOPRAM; FLUOXETINE; FLUVOXAMINE; MIRTAZAPINE; NORADRENALIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; NORCITALOPRAM; NORFLUOXETINE; NORSERTRALINE; PAROXETINE; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; REBOXETINE; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TRIFLUOPERAZINE; VENLAFAXINE;

ADULT; ANTICHOLINERGIC EFFECT; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SAFETY; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM; HYPOGLYCEMIA; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFANT; LETHARGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MATERNAL DISEASE; MENTAL DISEASE; META ANALYSIS; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NEUROTOXICITY; NEWBORN JAUNDICE; NONHUMAN; PANIC; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; PUERPERIUM; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP DISORDER; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TERATOGENICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE RETENTION; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL TRIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS;

EID: 14644414217     PISSN: 01145916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00002018-200528020-00005     Document Type: Review

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