Upper gastrointestinal bleeding in an end-stage renal disease patient treated with fluoxetine.

The defective platelets of end-stage renal disease patients might be further incapacitated by the antiplatelet effect of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, and bleeding tendency in these patients could be aggravated. Here we demonstrate an end-stage renal disease patient who was admitted for duodenal ulcer bleeding during the treatment with fluoxetine, and the bleeding did not stop by various active treatments until the cessation of fluoxetine.
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