[ECG changes in psychiatric patients under long-term therapy with psychopharmacological drugs (author's transl)]

Arzneimittelforschung. 1978;28(9):1500-1.
[Article in German]

Abstract

1726 psychiatric patients, aged 40-69, under permanent hospitalization were examined electrocardiographically. There were few pronounced indications of a relationship between pathological ECG findings and drugs. ECG changes, mainly T-flattening, were rarest among patients treated exclusively with non-tricyclic drugs, and most often among those patients who received tricyclic and non-tricyclic compounds simultaneously. These disturbances appeared more often among women.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic / adverse effects
  • Chronic Disease
  • Drug Interactions
  • Electrocardiography
  • Female
  • Heart Diseases / chemically induced*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mental Disorders / drug therapy*
  • Mental Disorders / physiopathology
  • Middle Aged
  • Psychotropic Drugs / adverse effects*
  • Sex Factors

Substances

  • Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic
  • Psychotropic Drugs