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Duloxetine and gingival bleeding: a case-report and reviews of the French and World PharmacoVigilance Databases and literature

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The authors would like to acknowledge the Uppsala Monitoring Center (UMC) which provided and gave permission to use the data analyzed in the present study. The authors also thank the French Network of Pharmacovigilance Centers that contributed to the data. They also wish to thank the French Drug Agency (Agence Nationale de Sécurité du Médicament, ANSM) for the use of the French PharmacoVigilance DataBase. The content of this article only involved its authors and the opinions and conclusions are not necessarily those of WHO UMC or ANSM. The authors of this article are solely responsible for the conclusions.

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Celine Gicquel, François Montastruc, and Jean-Louis Montastruc designed the study, analyzed the data, performed the analysis, and wrote the manuscript. Celine Gicquel, Chouki Chenaf, Aurore Gouraud, Milou Drici, and Emmanuelle Bondon-Guitton extracted the data. All the authors corrected and approved the manuscript.

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The work was performed during the university research time of the authors using the databases which are available without fees in the department of the authors.

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Gicquel, C., Moulis, F., Chenaf, C. et al. Duloxetine and gingival bleeding: a case-report and reviews of the French and World PharmacoVigilance Databases and literature. Eur J Clin Pharmacol 73, 1197–1198 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00228-017-2290-7

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