Gabapentin and lamotrigine in Indian patients of partial epilepsy refractory to carbamazepine

Neurology India

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 359-363

  Sethi, A ^a   Chandra, D ^a   Puri, V ^a   Mallika, V ^a  

^a Mamc Campus ^*  (India)

Author keywords

Add on therapy; Carbamazepine; Drug treatment; Gabapentin; Lamotrigine; Partial seizures; Refractory

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; GABAPENTIN; LAMOTRIGINE;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ADD ON THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; AMNESIA; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DROWSINESS; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG SAFETY; DYSPHORIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPIGASTRIC DISCOMFORT; FACE DISORDER; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FLUSHING; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; INCREASED APPETITE; INDIA; INSOMNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXIMUM TOLERATED DOSE; MONOTHERAPY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROTOXICITY; NYSTAGMUS; PARESTHESIA; PHOBIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEIZURE; SELF REPORT; SIDE EFFECT; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; TREMOR; VERTIGO; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VOMITING; WEIGHT GAIN;

ACETIC ACIDS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMINES; ANTICONVULSANTS; CARBAMAZEPINE; CHILD; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRIAZINES;

EID: 0036756071     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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