Venlafaxine Induced Hair Loss: A Case Report

2016-03-25T20-21-33Z
Source: Düşünen Adam: The Journal of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences
Esra Yancar Demir.
Objective:, Hairloss side-effect due to SNRIs are limited to case reports. Case: E is a 33 years old. Since her twenties, she suffers from symptoms of depression and anxiety like anhedonia, insomnia once or twice a year. This time she had been suffering from depressive mood, unwillingness, pessimism, aggresiveness for 4 months and she appealed to our clinic as she felt that her symptoms were worsening. She was diognosed as major depression reccurrent type according to DSM-4 and venlafaxine 75 mg/day treatment was started. At the first she was continued with same treatment. At the end of second month she reported witht he complaint of hair-loss. Her laborotuary findings including thyroid function tests, vitamin B-12 and D were all normal. As the organic reasons that might have caused the problem were sidelined, it was thought that venlafaxine might be the cause and it was discontinued .At the first month control after discontinuation hairloss had clearly been decreased . Conclusion: Clinicians should be aware that hairloss dueto venlafaxine,even rare, might be seen and such a complaint of a patient using venlafaxine shouldnt be over looked


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