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Desipramine Plasma Concentration and Antidepressant Response
J. Craig Nelson, MD;
Peter Jatlow, MD;
Donald M. Quinlan, PhD;
Malcolm B. Bowers, Jr, MD
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1982;39(12):1419-1422.
Abstract
• The relationship of desipramine hydrochloride plasma concentration and antidepressant response was determined in 30 depressed inpatients treated for three weeks with desipramine. All patients had a nondelusional unipolar depression, met DSM-III criteria for major depressive episode with melancholia, and had a Hamilton score of 18 or greater after one week of hospitalization without medication. Eightynine percent of the patients with plasma concentrations above 115 ng/mL responded, in contrast to 14% of those with concentrations below this level, a significant difference (Fisher's exact test, P<.001).. Ten initial nonresponders were converted to responders when dosage increase raised desipramine plasma concentration to 125 ng/mL or above. In clinical practice a plasma concentration of 125 ng/mL would be a useful guideline as a threshold above which desipramine is likely to be effective.
Author Affiliations
From the Departments of Psychiatry (Drs Nelson, Quinlan, and Bowers) and Laboratory Medicine (Dr Jatlow), Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication May 14, 1982.
Reprint requests to Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St, New Haven, CT 06510 (Dr Nelson).
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