Lamotrigine and catamenial epilepsy

Seizure

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 531-534

  Gilad, Ronit ^a   Sadeh, Menachem ^a   Rapoport, Abraham ^a   Dabby, Ron ^a   Lampl, Yair ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Catamenial; Epilepsy; Lamotrigine; Menstruation

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; LAMOTRIGINE; PHENYTOIN; PROGESTERONE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ANOVULATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD DISEASE; CATAMENIAL EPILEPSY; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RASH; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENSTRUATION; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAZINES;

EID: 48349083708     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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