Antidepressant-associated sexual dysfunction: Impact, effects, and treatment

Drug, Healthcare and Patient Safety

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 141-150

  Higgins, Agnes ^a   Nash, Michael ^a   Lynch, Aileen M ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Antidepressant; Depression; Iatrogenic sexual dysfunction; SNRI; SSRI

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; AMFEBUTAMONE; AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BUSPIRONE; CITALOPRAM; CLOMIPRAMINE; DOXEPIN; DULOXETINE; ESCITALOPRAM; FLUOXETINE; FLUVOXAMINE; IMIPRAMINE; MIANSERIN; MIRTAZAPINE; MOCLOBEMIDE; NEFAZODONE; PAROXETINE; PHENELZINE; PLACEBO; REBOXETINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; SILDENAFIL; TAMSULOSIN; TRANYLCYPROMINE; TRAZODONE; VENLAFAXINE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADJUVANT THERAPY; AGITATION; AGRANULOCYTOSIS; ANEMIA; ANORGASMIA; BLURRED VISION; BREAST HYPERTROPHY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONSTIPATION; DEPRESSION; DROWSINESS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EJACULATION DISORDER; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FATIGUE; GALACTORRHEA; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GINKGO BILOBA; HEART PALPITATION; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENCE; INSOMNIA; LEUKOPENIA; LIBIDO; LIBIDO DISORDER; LIVER INJURY; MOOD DISORDER; NAUSEA; NERVOUSNESS; NIPPLE PARESTHESIA; OPTIMAL DRUG DOSE; ORGASM DISORDER; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PAINFUL EJACULATION; PARESTHESIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PENIS NOCTURNAL TUMESCENCE; PENIS PARESTHESIA; PRIAPISM; REMISSION; RESTLESSNESS; RETROGRADE EJACULATION; REVIEW; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL AROUSAL DISORDER; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; SIDE EFFECT; SPONTANEOUS EJACULATION; TACHYCARDIA; TREMOR; URINE RETENTION; VAGINA PARESTHESIA; VISUAL DISORDER; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 77957114695     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11791365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/DHPS.S7634     Document Type: Review

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