Am J Psychiatry 1991; 148:1234-1236
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Serum nortriptyline levels in nursing mothers and their infants

KL Wisner and JM Perel
Pregnancy and Infant/Parent Center, Pittsburgh, PA.

The nortriptyline levels of seven depressed mothers and their breast- fed infants were obtained. Nortriptyline was not detected in the infants' sera. However, two of four infants evaluated developed low concentrations of 10-hydroxynortriptyline. No adverse effects were observed.

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