An open trial of gabapentin in acute alcohol withdrawal using an oral loading protocol

Alcohol and Alcoholism

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 143-145

  Bonnet, Udo ^a   Hamzavi Abedi, Reza ^a   Specka, Michael ^a   Wiltfang, Jens ^a   Lieb, Bodo ^a   Scherbaum, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOMETHIAZOLE; CLONAZEPAM; GABAPENTIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DELIRIUM; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MALE; NAUSEA; OPEN STUDY; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESSNESS; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT DURATION; VERTIGO;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL SEIZURES; ALCOHOLISM; AMINES; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHLORMETHIAZOLE; CLONAZEPAM; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ETHANOL; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949402914     PISSN: 07350414     EISSN: 14643502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/agp085     Document Type: Article

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