Lamotrigine therapy in patients requiring a change in antiepileptic drug regimen

Seizure

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 254-261

  Kustra, Robert P ^a   Meador, Kimford J ^b   Evans, Bradley K ^c   Leschek Gelman, Lisa M ^d   Groenke, Dawn A ^a   Hammer, Anne E ^a   Nanry, Kevin P ^a   Messenheimer, John A ^a   Abou Khalil, Bassel ^e   Aboumatar, Sami ^e   Allen, Aaron ^e   Alomzlino, Avraham ^e   Anderson, Gregory ^e   Applegate, Clara ^e   Baxt, Jan ^e   Beadle, Beverly ^e   Bellafiore, Peter ^e   Bhupalam, Rukmaiah ^e   Birk, Harvinder ^e   Blue, Susan ^e   Bobowick, Alphonse ^e   Bogdanoff, Bruce ^e   Brondos, Charles ^e   Brooks, Richard ^e   Canedo, Jose ^e   Casson, Ira ^e   Chandragiri, Niranjan ^e   Chawluk, John ^e   Choudhary, Shahid ^e   Cooke, Nelson ^e   Cravens, Lizbeth ^e   Daras, Michael ^e   Davis, Lloyd ^e   Dzamashvili, Konstantin ^e   Elterman, Roy ^e   Ente, Philip ^e   Ernstoff, Raina ^e   Fakhoury, Toufic ^e   Ferreira, Jose ^e   Frere, Robert ^e   Gable, Steven ^e   Gallo, Bruno ^e   Gambin, John ^e   Gannon, Peter ^e   Garber, Daniel ^e   Gheorghiu, Bogdan ^e   Gilroy, John ^e   Ginsburg, Paul ^e   Ginsburg, Stanley ^e   Graff, Justin ^e   Grenberg, Joel ^e   Hall, Scott ^e   Harris, Mark ^e   Hassan, Rizwan ^e   Hausman, Nancy ^e   Hendin, Barry ^e   Hilburger, Andrew ^e   Horowitz, Sandra ^e   Hsu, Phillip ^e   Imbus, Charles ^e   Janjua, Riaz ^e   Johnson, Linda ^e   Jones, Jeffrey ^e   Kandt, Raymond ^e   Katz, Avery ^e   Kirzinger, Stephen ^e   Lee, Daniel ^e   Leschek, Richard ^e   Lin, Thomas ^e   Mashman, Jan ^e   Mazzeo, Paul ^e   Maccabe, Paul ^e   Mcdowell, James ^e   Mclaren, David ^e   Mechtler, Laszlo ^e   Michel, Elliot ^e   Nash, Marshall ^e   Norris, Steven ^e   Novom, Steven ^e   Odenheimer, Burtram ^e   Owusu Yaw, Victor ^e   Pagani, Luis ^e   Pappas, Carol ^e   Park, Steven ^e   Patel, Mrugendra ^e   Popper, Jordan ^e   Rajan, Arun ^e   Rankine, David ^e   Rawat, Sumant ^e   River, Mary ^e   Roby, David ^e   Rosenbaum, David ^e   Ross, Jonathan ^e   Sachdev, Harmeet ^e   Sauter, Micheal ^e   Scariano, Jack ^e   Schiff, Arthur ^e   Schilder, Peter ^e   Siegel, Kenneth ^e   more..

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Northern Michigan Neurology   (United States)

^d Neurology Associates   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Adjunctive therapy; Epilepsy; Lamotrigine; Monotherapy; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; ENZYME INDUCING AGENT; GABAPENTIN; LAMOTRIGINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OPEN STUDY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICONVULSANTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG EVALUATION; DRUG INTERACTIONS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; DRUG TOLERANCE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAZINES;

EID: 21044441193     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2005.02.003     Document Type: Article

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