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  • Profound hypoglycemia with the addition of a tricyclic antidepressant to maintenance sulfonylurea therapy.

Profound hypoglycemia with the addition of a tricyclic antidepressant to maintenance sulfonylurea therapy.

The American journal of psychiatry (1987-09-01)
B L True, P J Perry, E A Burns
PMID3631324
ABSTRACT

Cases of profound hypoglycemia after the initiation of tricyclic antidepressant therapy in two patients taking sulfonylureas are described. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first report of a potential drug interaction between tricyclic antidepressants and sulfonylureas.