https://doi.org/10.4081/aiua.2017.2.160

Acute urinary retention after venlafaxine use

Vol. 89 No. 2 (2017)
Submitted: December 17, 2016
Accepted: January 11, 2017
Published: June 30, 2017
Acute urinary retention, Lower urinary tract symptoms, Venlafaxine
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Şaban Oğuz Demirdöğen
oguzdemirdogen@hotmail.com
Urology Department Atatürk University, Turkey.
Esen Yıldırım Demirdöğen
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Atatürk University, Turkey.
Şenol Adanur
Urology Department Atatürk University, Turkey.
We describe a case of lower urinary system symptoms (LUSSs) and acute urinary retention that developed after treatment with a low dose of venlafaxine. A 48-year-old male patient was admitted to our clinic because of difficulty urinating, an intermittent stream, and trickling at the end of urination, together with urinary retention that had started about 45 days ago. The patient had been taking venlafaxine for the previous 6 months. The drug had been prescribed by the psychiatry department for a diagnosis of major depression, and the dose had been increased from 75 mg/day to 150 mg/day 1.5 months earlier. The patients’ symptoms were thought to be related to venlafaxine, and the symptoms disappeared completely after venlafaxine was replaced with agomelatine. We concluded that the LUSSs and urinary retention were due to the venlafaxine treatment.

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Şaban Oğuz Demirdöğen, Urology Department Atatürk University
Urology Department
Esen Yıldırım Demirdöğen, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Atatürk University
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Şenol Adanur, Urology Department Atatürk University
Urology Department

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Demirdöğen, Şaban O., Yıldırım Demirdöğen, E., & Adanur, Şenol. (2017). Acute urinary retention after venlafaxine use. Archivio Italiano Di Urologia E Andrologia, 89(2), 160–161. https://doi.org/10.4081/aiua.2017.2.160

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