Managing epilepsy: Issues in the elderly

Consultant Pharmacist

Volumn 24, Issue SUPPL. A, 2009, Pages 17-22

  Marasco, Richard A ^a,c   Ramsay, R Eugene ^b  

^a Pharmaceutical Care and Management Services   (Georgia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Pharmaceutical Care and Management Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Care plan; Comorbidities; Drug interactions; Epilepsy; Polypharmacy; Seizures

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALLOPURINOL; AMIODARONE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIMETIDINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; DILTIAZEM; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUOXETINE; GABAPENTIN; HYPERICUM PERFORATUM EXTRACT; IBUPROFEN; IMIPRAMINE; ISONIAZID; LAMOTRIGINE; METHYLPHENIDATE; METRONIDAZOLE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PREGABALIN; SERTRALINE; TOPIRAMATE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID; VERAPAMIL; ZONISAMIDE;

AGED; COMORBIDITY; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EPILEPSY; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; NURSING HOME; PHARMACIST; POLYPHARMACY; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; AGING; ANTICONVULSANTS; COMORBIDITY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; POLYPHARMACY;

EID: 66749156503     PISSN: 08885109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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