Efficacy and tolerability of conversion to monotherapy with lamotrigine compared with valproate and carbamazepine in patients with epilepsy

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 532-538

  Fakhoury, Toufic A ^a   Hammer, Anne E ^b   Vuong, Alain ^b   Messenheimer, John A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; FELBAMATE; GABAPENTIN; LAMOTRIGINE; MEPHENYTOIN; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PRIMIDONE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROATE SEMISODIUM; VALPROIC ACID;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE CONTROL; DIZZINESS; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; NAUSEA; OPEN STUDY; PARALLEL DESIGN; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEIZURE; SOMNOLENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREMOR; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CARBAMAZEPINE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DRUG INTERACTIONS; DRUG TOLERANCE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAZINES; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 4043175714     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2004.04.006     Document Type: Article

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