Abstract:
:1. The range of tricyclic antidepressant plasma levels (or doses) needed for therapeutic response remains largely unresolved, since quantal plasma concentration (or dose)--response relationships have not been clearly defined for either therapeutic or nontherapeutic effects. 2. The fact that certain patients apparently became more depressed at higher plasma levels must be balanced against the facts that "depression" is a mixture of disorders as yet poorly distinguishable and that tricyclic antidepressants have multiple pharmacologic effects. 3. There is presently no justification for routinely monitoring tricyclic antidepressant plasma levels, even though, as for any drug, such determinations are justifiable in patients who are unresponsive or show signs of toxicity. 4. Plasma level determinations can never replace sound clinical judgment and dosage adjustment for individual patients.
journal_name
Prog Neuropsychopharmacoljournal_title
Progress in neuro-psychopharmacologyauthors
Levine RRdoi
10.1016/0364-7722(79)90085-7subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1979-01-01 00:00:00pages
211-22issue
1-3eissn
0364-7722issn
0278-5846journal_volume
3pub_type
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/0364-7722(79)90065-1
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