Response to intravenous racemic ketamine after switch from intranasal (S)‐ketamine on symptoms of treatment‐resistant depression and post‐traumatic stress disorder in Veterans: A retrospective case series

Autor: Sean Bentley, Hewa Artin, Eamonn Mehaffey, Fred Liu, Kevin Sojourner, Andrew Bismark, David Printz, Ellen E. Lee, Brian Martis, Sharon De Peralta, Dewleen G. Baker, Jyoti Mishra, Dhakshin Ramanathan
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Pharmacotherapy, vol 42, iss 3
ISSN: 1875-9114
0277-0008
DOI: 10.1002/phar.2664
Popis: BackgroundRacemic (R,S)-ketamine is a glutamatergic drug with potent and rapid acting antidepressant effects. An intranasal formulation of (S)-ketamine was recently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be used in individuals with treatment-resistant depression (TRD). There are no data directly comparing outcomes on depression or other comorbidities between these two formulations of ketamine. However, recent meta-analyses have suggested that IV racemic ketamine may be more potent than IN-(S)-ketamine.MethodsWe retrospectively analyzed clinical outcomes in 15 Veterans with comorbid TRD and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) who underwent ketamine treatment at the VA San Diego Neuromodulation Clinic. All Veterans included in this analysis were given at least 6 intranasal (IN)-(S)-ketamine treatments prior to switching to treatment with IV racemic ketamine.ResultsVeterans receiving ketamine treatment ( across both IN-(S)-ketamine and IV-(R,S)-ketamine) showed significant reductions in both the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), a self-report scale measuring depression symptoms (rm ANOVA F(14,42)=12.6, p 
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