Differential effects of milnacipran and fluvoxamine, especially in patients with severe depression and agitated depression: a case–control study
Differential effects of milnacipran and fluvoxamine, especially in patients with severe depression and agitated depression: a case–control study
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米那普仑和氟伏沙明的不同作用,特别是对于重度抑郁症和激越抑郁症患者:病例对照研究
DOI:
10.1097/00004850-200203000-00002
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发表时间:
2002
影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
K. Kanemoto
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作者:
T. Fukuchi;K. Kanemoto
We attempted to compare the antidepressant efficacy of milnacipran and fluvoxamine in 202 outpatients with major depression, using the 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS). Special attention was paid to the difference of responsiveness as a function of the severity of depression and individual HDRS factors. As a result, while no significant difference between the treatment groups was found overall, a positive response (50% or more decrease in total score from the baseline) was recorded significantly more often with milnacipran than fluvoxamine recipients whose baseline HDRS total score was greater than 19 points. Furthermore, there was a significant difference of response for the ‘agitation’ and ‘insomnia’ factors in favour of milnacipran. In both treatment groups, the incidence of adverse events, characteristic of tricyclic antidepressants such as dry mouth, constipation, somnolence and postural hypotension, was low. While complaints concerning the upper intestinal tract, such as epigastric distress, were predominant in the fluvoxamine group, urological complications and palpitations were reported only in the milnacipran group. In conclusion, we suggest that milnacipran is preferred to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors for the treatment of depressed patients with agitation as well as severely depressed patients.