Gabapentin-induced coma in a patient with renal failure

Hemodialysis International

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 168-169

  Dogukan, Ayhan ^a   Aygen, Bilge ^a   Berilgen, Muhammed S ^a   Dag, Sait ^a   Bektas, Sevim ^a   Gunal, Ali I ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Coma; Gabapentin; Renal failure

Indexed keywords

GABAPENTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; COMA; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; ISCHIALGIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; MENTAL HEALTH; OXYGEN SATURATION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AMINES; COMA; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCIATICA;

EID: 33645327100     PISSN: 14927535     EISSN: 15424758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-4758.2006.00089.x     Document Type: Article

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