Escitalopram in Patients With Social Anxiety Disorder

Exclusion Criteria

• •The patient has/has had an alcohol or drug abuse-related disorder, as defined in ICD-10
• •The patient has contraindications to escitalopram
• •The patient has a history of severe drug allergy or hypersensitivity, or known hypersensitivity to escitalopram
• •The patient has a serious illness and/or serious sequelae thereof, including liver or renal insufficiency, or a cardiovascular, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, endocrine, neurological, infectious, neoplastic, or metabolic disturbance
• •The patient is pregnant or breast-feeding
• •The patient, if a woman of childbearing potential, is not using adequate contraception