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M Barranco

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PubMed1982

Doxepin as adjunctive therapy for depressed methadone maintenance patients: a double-blind study.

Depression and anxiety can contribute to both drug dependence and reduced retention rates in methadone maintenance programs. In a 5-week double-blind study, the effectiveness of doxepin as an adjunctive treatment was compared to placebo in 46 depressed/anxious patients attending a methadone maintenance program. Doxepin was superior to placebo on Clinical Global Impressions and several factors of the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression and the Profile of Mood States. No clinically significant potentiation of side effects was observed with the combined administration of doxepin and methadone.

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[Neonatal infection by Streptococcus agalactiae. Multicenter study in the area of Barcelona, Spain].

BACKGROUND: Streptococcus agalactiae or streptococcus group B (SGB) is the main etiologic agent of early neonatal sepsis. A multicenter study was performed with the aim of determining the incidence and characteristics of this disease in our medium and contribute the design of an adequate prevention protocol. METHODS: Ten hospitals and two primary health care centers were implicated in the study; 103 microbiology confirmed episodes of SGB neonatal sepsis (blood and/or LCR positive) were reported from 1994 to 1996. RESULTS: The incidence of early SGB neonatal sepsis was 1.48/1,000 live births with a mortality of 8.7%. The cultures, for detecting the state of the SGB carrier were performed in only 26 (25%) of the patients. At least one of the factors described for risk of perinatal SGB infection was observed in 46% of the mothers, with the most frequent being prolonged amniorrhea (26%), intrapartum fever (17%), and early delivery (14%). At the time of delivery only 10.7% of the mothers received endovenous antibiotherapy. CONCLUSIONS: From these results the following recommendations have been made: a) detection of SGB carriers by the systematic practice of blood cultures in the last weeks of gestation and b) the administration of intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis in both early births (< 37 weeks) and in all the SGB carriers should be undertaken. With these measures we aim to decrease the neonatal infections by streptococcus group B.

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