Changes in sex steroid levels in women with epilepsy on treatment: Relationship with antiepileptic therapies and seizure frequency

Epilepsia

Volumn 50, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages 28-32

  Galimberti, Carlo Andrea ^a   Magri, Flavia ^b   Copello, Francesco ^c   Arbasino, Carla ^a   Chytiris, Spyridon ^b   Casu, Massimo ^d   Ameri, Pietro ^d   Perucca, Piero ^a   Murialdo, Giovanni ^d  

^a C MONDINO NATIONAL NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antiepileptic drugs; Epilepsy; Estradiol; Progesterone; Sex hormone binding globulin; Sex hormones

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; HYDROCORTISONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MIDDLE AGED; SEIZURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149299926     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01966.x     Document Type: Article

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