NEWS HIGHLIGHTSMedia Articles Related to Tofranil-PM (Imipramine)
Depression Doubles Risk Of Stroke In Middle-Aged Women
Source: Health News from Medical News Today [2013.05.18]
Depression doubles the risk of having a stroke in middle-aged women, according to a new study in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. The research, a 12-year examination of 10,547 Australian females between the ages of 47 and 52 years old, showed that depressed women had a 2.4 times higher likelihood of stroke than those who were not suffering from depression. After adjusting for factors known to increase stroke risks, results showed that depressed women were still 1.9 times more likely to experience a stroke. Study author Caroline Jackson, Ph.D...
Screening for Depression Lacks Strong Evidence (CME/CE)
Source: MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians [2013.05.17]
(MedPage Today) -- Primary care physicians don't need to regularly screen asymptomatic adults for depression, according to new recommendations from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care.
Adult Children of Substance Abusers More Prone to Depression
Source: MedicineNet Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Specialty [2013.05.17]
Title: Adult Children of Substance Abusers More Prone to Depression
Category: Health News
Created: 5/16/2013 6:36:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 5/17/2013 12:00:00 AM
Anti-Gay Bullying Tied to Teen Depression, Suicide
Source: MedicineNet Depression Specialty [2013.05.17]
Title: Anti-Gay Bullying Tied to Teen Depression, Suicide
Category: Health News
Created: 5/16/2013 4:36:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 5/17/2013 12:00:00 AM
Depression May Boost Stroke Risk in Middle-Aged Women, Too
Source: MedicineNet Depression Specialty [2013.05.17]
Title: Depression May Boost Stroke Risk in Middle-Aged Women, Too
Category: Health News
Created: 5/16/2013 4:36:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 5/17/2013 12:00:00 AM
Published Studies Related to Tofranil-PM (Imipramine)
Comparison between imipramine and imipramine combined with pseudoephedrine in 5-12-year-old children with uncomplicated enuresis: a double-blind clinical trial. [2011.02]
OBJECTIVE: Monosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis is a common entity, with a prevalence of 10% at the age of 7 years. For its primary treatment, we compared the effect of combination medical therapy (imipramine with pseudoephedrine) with imipramine alone... CONCLUSION: The additive pharmacologic effects of imipramine with pseudoephedrine for the treatment of monosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis in children were well tolerated, and gave significantly faster results than single drug therapy using imipramine. The moderate-to-high recurrence rate following discontinuation of medical treatment indicates the need for a longer term study involving more cases. Crown Copyright (c) 2010. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Comparison between imipramine and imipramine combined with pseudoephedrine in
5-12-year-old children with uncomplicated enuresis: a double-blind clinical
trial. [2011]
imipramine alone... CONCLUSION: The additive pharmacologic effects of imipramine with pseudoephedrine
Serum zinc level in depressed patients during zinc supplementation of imipramine treatment. [2010.11]
BACKGROUND: Recurrent major depression is associated with decreased blood zinc concentrations that may be increased by effective antidepressant therapy. Some clinical investigations point to alterations of the zinc level in blood as a potential marker of depression... CONCLUSIONS: Serum zinc is a state marker of depression. Copyright (c) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Low-dose gabapentin as useful adjuvant to opioids for neuropathic cancer pain when combined with low-dose imipramine. [2010.06]
PURPOSE: Painful neuropathic conditions of cancer pain often show little response to nonopioid and opioid analgesics but may be eased by antidepressants and anticonvulsants. Although gabapentin is effective in the treatment of neuropathic pain in patients with cancer, some patients experience intolerable side effects sufficient to warrant discontinuation. The aim of this study was to see whether low-dose gabapentin is effective in treating cancer-related neuropathic pain when combined with low-dose imipramine... CONCLUSION: Low-dose gabapentin-antidepressant combination with opioids was effective in managing neuropathic cancer pain without severe adverse effects.
Treatment of unipolar psychotic depression: a randomized, double-blind study comparing imipramine, venlafaxine, and venlafaxine plus quetiapine. [2010.03]
CONCLUSION: That unipolar psychotic depression should be treated with a combination of an antidepressant and an antipsychotic and not with an antidepressant alone, can be considered evidence based with regard to venlafaxine-quetiapine vs. venlafaxine monotherapy. Whether this is also the case for imipramine monotherapy is likely, but cannot be concluded from the data.
Clinical Trials Related to Tofranil-PM (Imipramine)
Imipramine and Pregabalin Combination in Painful Polyneuropathy [Not yet recruiting]
Polyneuropathy of different etiologies is often associated with pain and the standard
treatment for this type of pain is gabapentinoids or antidepressants. The hypothesis of this
study is that the combination of the gabapentinoid pregabalin and the antidepressant
imipramine will provide better pain relief than the single compounds alone.
This is a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, 4-way, cross-over trial of
pregabalin 300 mg/day, imipramine 75 mg/day and their combination versus placebo. The study
will include 60 patients and the treatment outcome will be pain intensity as measured by
numeric rating scales.
Imipramine Treatment for Patients With Multi-organ Bodily Distress Syndrome [Recruiting]
The aim of this study is to test the effect of the tricyclic antidepressant Imipramine in
patients with longlasting health problems with no known medical explanation, defined as
multi-organ Bodily distress syndrome (BDS). Pharmacological treatment of patients with BDS
have never been tested, and Imipramine i low dosage (10-75 mg) has the potential of reducing
both pain and other symptoms of bodily distress for patients with BDS. Control conditions
are pill placebo. Study duration is 19 weeks for each of the 140 patients.
The Efficacy of Imipramine in Treatment of Functional Dyspepsia [Recruiting]
The aim of this study is evaluate the efficacy of Imipramine, a tricyclic antidepressant, in
treatment of functional dyspepsia. This is a double blind randomised placebo controlled
trial in which consecutive patients with diagnosis of functional dyspepsia will be studied.
After exclusion of organic cause of dyspepsia by endoscopy, these patients will be randomly
assigned to either imipramine or placebo. All the patients will enter an additional 4 weeks
of drug withdrawal phase after the initial 12 weeks of study drug treatment. They will be
evaluated for treatment response, which is defined as satisfactory relief of dyspeptic
symptoms at the end of 12-week treatment.
Efficacy of Imipramine for Treatment of Patients With Esophageal Hypersensitivity/ Functional Heartburn [Recruiting]
Esophageal hypersensitivity/Functional heartburn are common among non-erosive reflux disease
(NERD) patients who do not response to proton pump inhibitors. Whether tricyclic
antidepressant improves NERD patient's symptoms remains unknown
Aim of this randomized controlled trial study is to determine the efficacy of imipramine,
which could increase esophageal pain thresholds in healthy volunteers, in comparison with
placebo for treatment patients with esophageal hypersensitivity or functional heartburn
evaluated by improvement of specific-symptom score and quality of life
Linking Altered Central Pain Processing and Genetic Polymorphism to Drug Efficacy in Chronic Low Back Pain (Predictio) [Recruiting]
Drug therapy in patients with chronic low back pain is a major challenge for physicians. One
of the problems is the lacking knowledge in prediction of drug efficacy in a chosen patient.
Usually one of the classes of pain medication is given to patients with a similar clinical
picture, although different pain mechanisms may be responsible for this clinical picture.
Another reason for variable drug efficacy are genetic polymorphisms, this may be the reason
why an unique drug produces different responses (from a lacking analgesic effect up to
excessive effect or side-effects.
Quantitative sensory testing is a method that documents alterations in the pain perception
system. Linking genetic polymorphisms to quantitative sensory testing may give us a tool for
anticipation of drug efficacy.
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