Post-stroke Depression Treatment Effect on Stroke Recurrence

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-03-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

It is not clear whether depresssion can predispose, or precipitate stroke recurrence in patients with stroke. We sought the relationship of post stroke depression with stroke recurrence.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Ege University
• Treatments: Citalopram

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients who met DSM-IV and V criteria for depression

Exclusion Criteria:

• Severe or unstable medical disorders (eg, myocardial infarction within past 3 months, end-stage cancer, decompensated cardiac failure)

• Known primary neurological disorders including dementia, delirium, Parkinson disease, brain tumors, multiple sclerosis, seizure disorder

• Drugs (eg, systemic steroids)

• Pancreatic cancer, uncorrected hypothyroidism

• Current suicidal risk

• Use of psychotropic prescription or nonprescription drugs, certain hypnotics

• Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score of 21 or lower