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Venlafaxine Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Case Reports

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Abstract

About one-third of patients affected by obsessive-compulsive disorder fail to respond to serotonergic drugs and different strategies have been proposed for these resistant cases. This article reports experiences with venlafaxine in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder who did not respond or did not tolerate serotonergic drugs.

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Case Report
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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