BACKGROUND Patients with mixed anxiety-depressive disorder (MADD) suffer both anxiety and depression. Antidepressants, especially, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are among agents of choice for treating this condition. OBJECTIVES This study compared the efficacy of Cipram® with its generic, citalopram. PATIENTS AND METHODS Forty adult outpatients (between 18 to 55 years of age) with...

objective: hypoglycemia with multiple etiologies is a common in diabetic patients. the current study describes the probability of interaction between maprotiline, selective serotonine reuptake inhibitors like citalopram for induction of hypoglycemia. case presentation: a 47 year-old diabetic woman used tablet citalopram 20mg daily because of generalized anxiety disorder from two years ago, but ...

background: although plenty of medications have shown promise in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome (ibs), none have relieved all complaints adequately to be considered as gold standard. based on previous data regarding the effectiveness of olanzapine in other functional or psychosomatic disorders and clinical experience of the authors on its efficacy and safety, we considered to test th...

a simple and sensitive, solid-phase extraction method for the removal of citalopram drug from waste water has been developed by using magnetic nanoparticles modified with surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate. these magnetic nanoparticles have shown great adsorptive tendency towards citalopram drug. the effect of different parameters influencing the extraction efficiency of this drug were investiga...

various studies suggest that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (ssris) may be useful in treating pathological skin picking (psp). this study sought to assess effectiveness of citalopram in comparison with placebo in treating psp. forty five individuals with psp were recruited in a four-week, randomized clinical trial of citalopram (20 mg/day) in comparison with placebo. study measures ass...

Depression is a serious health issue and, being such, treatment for it has become topic of increasing concern. Consequently, the prescription rates antidepressants have increased by about 50% over past decade. Among antidepressants, citalopram and venlafaxine are most frequently prescribed in Germany. Due to high consumption low elimination both during wastewater purification, they found surfac...

as the most common male sexual disorder premature ejaculation (pe), also referred to as early ejaculation (ee) or rapid ejaculation (re), affects 30%-40% of sexually active men. despite the limited number of available studies comparing the efficacy of selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (ssri) they have been thought to have beneficial effects for the treatment of patients with pe. in the p...