Escitalopram and ischemic stroke: Cause or chance association?

Annals of Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1508-1509

  Ashish, Aggarwal ^a   Kumar, Ramesh ^a   Sharma, Ravi C ^a   Sharma, Dinesh D ^a  

^a INDIRA GANDHI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; CLONAZEPAM; ESCITALOPRAM;

ADULT; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; GRAY MATTER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERSALIVATION; LETTER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; MOUTH DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISORDER; TEMPORAL LOBE; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; CITALOPRAM; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; STROKE;

EID: 77956240706     PISSN: 10600280     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1345/aph.1P185     Document Type: Letter

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