Several months later, after the amitriptyline the vet had prescribed had truly taken hold, Minou was a noticeably different beast.

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They found a small but significantly longer QT interval for SSRIs citalopram and escitalopram as well as for methadone and the tricyclic antidepressant amitriptyline.

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