Antiepileptic drugs lower contraceptive sex hormone and increase the risk of unplanned pregnancies in women with epilepsy: Revisited study

International Journal of Immunopathology and Pharmacology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 181-183

  Huang, Shu Hai ^a,b   Gambi, F ^b   Conti, F ^b   Carratelli, G ^c   Conti, C M V ^d   Mastromauro, I ^c   Riccioni, G ^e   Grilli, A ^b   Bellati, U ^b   Doyle, R L ^e  

^a Guangxi People's Hospital   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiepileptic drugs; Oral contraceptives; Pregnancy; Sex hormones

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CADMIUM; CLONAZEPAM; CLORAZEPATE; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ETHOSUXIMIDE; ETHOTOIN; LIVER ENZYME; MEPHENYTOIN; MESSENGER RNA; MESUXIMIDE; METHYLPHENOBARBITAL; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; OXCARBAZEPINE; PARAMETHADIONE; PHENACEMIDE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PRIMIDONE; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE GAMMA; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; TRACE ELEMENT; TRIMETHADIONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID;

AGE; ALOPECIA; ANOREXIA; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BIRTH CONTROL; BLEEDING DISORDER; BLOOD DYSCRASIA; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INHIBITION; CHILD CARE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONFUSION; CONTRACEPTION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DOWN REGULATION; DROWSINESS; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; EPILEPSY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GINGIVA DISEASE; HEADACHE; HIRSUTISM; HOMEOSTASIS; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; INSOMNIA; IRRITABILITY; LETTER; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENTAL DISEASE; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OVARY CYST; OVULATION; PARESTHESIA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RASH; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SOCIAL ASPECT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TIC; TREMOR; URINARY FREQUENCY; VERTIGO; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 10744220748     PISSN: 03946320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/039463200301600213     Document Type: Letter

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