Population
2 patients with unresponsive cardiac standstill secondary to toxicity of tricyclic antidepressants
Design
Case_series
Authors
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Case reports signal potential hazard with tricyclics plus catecholamine depleters; leaves open need for confirmatory studies before practice change.
Tricyclic antidepressants can cause unresponsive cardiac standstill and should be avoided in patients taking catecholamine-depleting agents.
Redford B. Williams (1971) studied this question.
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