Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology
Case Report

Escitalopram-Induced Bradycardia in Elderly Individuals: A Case Series Report

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Neurology Service, Erenkoy Research and Training Hospital for Mental and Neurological Disorders, Istanbul - Turkey

Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology 2015; 25: 183-185
DOI: 10.5455/bcp.20140304090654
Read: 1156 Downloads: 556 Published: 24 January 2021

The authors report on three elderly patients treated with escitalopram, 10 mg/day, who presented with marked sinus bradycardia. The bradycardia was clinically symptomatic or asymptomatic and disappeared within 24 hours after escitalopram was discontinued. Clinicians should be cautious about cardiac effects when using a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor in elderly people, even at a low dose.

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