Anticonvulsant hypersensitivity syndrome: Report of 2 cases from Kuwait

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 197-199

  Bin Nakhi, Hanan A ^a   Sadeq, Sameera ^a   Pinto, Raimond G ^a   Habeeb, Yousef ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Anticonvulsant hypersensitivity syndrome; Antiepileptics; Carbamazepine; Lamotrigene; Phenytoin

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LAMOTRIGINE; VALPROIC ACID;

ABSENCE; ANTICONVULSANT HYPERSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CROSS ALLERGY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG FEVER; EDEMA; EOSINOPHILIA; ERYTHEMA; EYELID EDEMA; FACE EDEMA; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEPATITIS; HEPATOMEGALY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; KUWAIT; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LYMPHADENOPATHY; PANCYTOPENIA; PAPULAR SKIN DISEASE; PRURITUS; SCHOOL CHILD; SIMPLE PARTIAL SEIZURE; THROAT DISEASE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TONGUE DISEASE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREMOR; URINALYSIS;

ANTICONVULSANTS; CARBAMAZEPINE; CHILD; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; TRIAZINES; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 0038545486     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000070760     Document Type: Article

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