Severe hyponatremia due to escitalopram treatment in an elderly adult with Alzheimer's disease

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2462-2463

  Soysal, Pinar ^a   Isik, Ahmet Turan ^a  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCITALOPRAM; LOSARTAN; MEMANTINE; RIVASTIGMINE; SITAGLIPTIN; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRAZODONE; CITALOPRAM; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ADD ON THERAPY; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANXIETY; BABINSKI REFLEX; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYING; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FALLING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPONATREMIA; IRRITABILITY; LETHARGY; LETTER; LOSS OF APPETITE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; SLEEP DISORDER; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; TENDON REFLEX; URINE INCONTINENCE; WALKING DIFFICULTY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CITALOPRAM; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPONATREMIA; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS;

EID: 84918790224     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.13149     Document Type: Letter

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