Acute hepatitis associated with lamotrigine and managed with the molecular adsorbents recirculating system (MARS)

Epilepsia

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1687-1689

  Mecarelli, Oriano ^a   Pulitano, Patrizia ^a   Mingoia, Marielisa ^a   Ferretti, Giancarlo ^b   Rossi, Massimo ^b   Berloco, Pasquale B ^b   Muda, Andrea Onetti ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; CEFTRIAXONE; CORTICOSTEROID; DIURETIC AGENT; ETIRACETAM; LAMOTRIGINE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; VITAMIN K GROUP; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; TRIAZINE DERIVATIVE;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ADULT; ALBUMIN DIALYSIS; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DROWSINESS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER TOXICITY; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MONOTHERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOMITING; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHILD; DETOXIFICATION; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TOXIC HEPATITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, COMPLEX PARTIAL; FEMALE; HEPATITIS, TOXIC; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; SORPTION DETOXIFICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAZINES;

EID: 27244454636     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2005.00269.x     Document Type: Article

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