Pattern of adverse drug reactions to anti-epileptic drugs: A cross-sectional one-year survey at a tertiary care hospital

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 807-812

  Roopa, B S ^a   Narayan, Sujatha S ^a   Sharma, G R K ^a   Rodrigues, Rashmi J ^a   Kulkarni, Chanda ^a  

^a ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Adverse drug reaction; Anti epileptic drugs; Monotherapy; Polytherapy; Safer treatment options

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; LAMOTRIGINE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BLOOD DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DROWSINESS; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG SAFETY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; GINGIVA HYPERPLASIA; GINGIVA HYPERTROPHY; HAIR LOSS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERAMMONEMIA; LIVER DISEASE; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MONOTHERAPY; MOUTH DISEASE; MOUTH ULCER; PANCYTOPENIA; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; POLYPHARMACY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN DISEASE; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TOXIC HEPATITIS; URTICARIA; VERTIGO; VOMITING; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 50249111706     PISSN: 10538569     EISSN: 10991557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pds.1540     Document Type: Article

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