Topiramate slow dose titration: Improved efficacy and tolerability

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 349-352

  Albsoul Younes, Abla M ^a   Salem, Hazem A ^a   Ajlouni, Saleh F ^b   Al Safi, Saafan A ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^b British Institute in Amman   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOPIRAMATE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADD ON THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVOUSNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TITRIMETRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FEMALE; FRUCTOSE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPASMS, INFANTILE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 7044272405     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2004.04.012     Document Type: Article

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