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COPD

Sertraline no help in chronic breathlessness

By Mardi Chapman

6 Nov 2018

Sertraline has no role in the management of chronic breathlessness in patients with advanced disease such as COPD, primary lung cancer and other restrictive lung disease. An Australian study randomised 249 patients to either daily oral sertraline (25-100mg) or placebo in addition to their usual care and up to eight doses of immediate release oral ...

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