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Prerna Kukreti1, Wazid Ali2, R C Jiloha3
1Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Hamdard Institute of Medical Science & Research (HIMSR) , Jamia Hamdard, Delhi, India .
Abstract:
Non puerperal lactation or galactorrhea is a well known side effect of antipsychotic drugs but has been infrequently described with the use of antidepressants. In past few decades, there have been emerging trend of isolated case reports of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors induced non puerperal lactation. We report a case of non puerperal lactation following usage of second generation tricyclic antidepressant, nortriptyline and resolution on withdrawing the drug. Literature review has been done for antidepressant induced galactorrhea to understand the current trends, putative mechanism as different from one implicated for antipsychotics and its clinical utility.
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