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Sexual dysfunction associated with Mesoridazine Besylate (Serentil)

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Sexual dysfunction in the form of a disorder of ejaculatory mechanisms but without interference with erection and orgasm is described in a 30 year old man receiving Mesoridazine Besylate (Serentil) a phenothiazine closely related to thioridazine (Mellaril).

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  1. Psychopharmacology Research Laboratory, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Mental Health Center, 02115, Boston, Massachusetts

    Richard I. Shader

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Supported in part by USPHS Grant MH-12279.

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Shader, R.I. Sexual dysfunction associated with Mesoridazine Besylate (Serentil). Psychopharmacologia 27, 293–294 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00422810

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