Asymptomatic children with epilepsy: Little benefit from screening for anticonvulsant¬induced liver, blood, or renal damage

Neurology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1986, Pages 838-841

  Camfield, Carol ^a   Camfield, Peter ^a   Smith, Edyth ^a   Tibbles, John A R ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC ANALGESIC AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; ETHOSUXIMIDE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; VALPROIC ACID;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD AND HEMOPOIETIC SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG THERAPY; EPILEPSY; FEVER; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; IRRITABILITY; KIDNEY; KIDNEY INJURY; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER; LIVER INJURY; LIVER TOXICITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROTOXICITY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; THERAPY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADOLESCENT; ANTICONVULSANTS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY DISEASES; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; SEIZURES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0022527121     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.36.6.838     Document Type: Article

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