Delayed amnesic syndrome after riluzole use in major depressive disorder: a case report.
Delayed amnesic syndrome after riluzole use in major depressive disorder: a case report.
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使用利鲁唑治疗重度抑郁症后出现迟发性遗忘综合征:病例报告。
DOI:
10.1016/j.psym.2013.02.002
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发表时间:
2013
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3.4
通讯作者:
Mischoulon,David
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作者:
Cardoos,Amber;Inamori,Aya;Sanacora,Gerard;Fava,Maurizio;Mischoulon,David
Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) remains a common problem, with 29–46% of depressed patients failing to respond sufficiently to adequate trials of antidepressant medications. 1 Recently, several open-label clinical trials of riluzole, an antiglutamatergic drug approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treatment of amytrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), have revealed antidepressant effects in individuals with major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. 2–5The most common side effects of riluzole (at doses of 100mg/day) include asthenia (19.2%), nausea (16.3%), and decreased lung function (10.2%); other common but less frequent (< 10%) side effects include dizziness, diarrhea, abdominal pain, vomiting, vertigo, oral parasthesia, anorexia, insomnia, somnolence, and psychiatric symptoms such as depression6. A more serious and rare adverse effect, amnesic syndrome, has been previously reported twice, in the context of overdose. In the first case, a woman with Huntington’s disease developed delayed amnesia that persisted for over a year, four days after ingesting 3g of riluzole. 7 In the second case, a woman with Huntington’s disease developed severe amnesic syndrome with anterograde and retrograde amnesia as well as attention and short-term memory deficits, four days after ingesting 2.8 g of riluzole. 8 In the latter case, the patient’s cognitive functions improved gradually and returned to baseline within a year of the intoxication8. We report here a case of global amnesia related to as-directed use of riluzole in the setting of a randomized clinical trial (RCT).