Pregabalin: Preliminary Experience in Intractable Childhood Epilepsy

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 347-350

  Jan, Mohammed M S ^a   Zuberi, Sobia A ^b   Alsaihati, Bayan A ^b  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAHRAIN   (Bahrain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; PREGABALIN;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIZZINESS; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; MALE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; OPEN STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; SYMPTOMATIC EPILEPSY; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 64549105231     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2008.12.016     Document Type: Article

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