The teratogenic risk of antiepileptic drug polytherapy

Epilepsia

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 805-810

  Vajda, Frank J E ^a   Hitchcock, Alison A ^a   Graham, Janet ^a   O'Brien, Terence J ^a   Lander, Cecilie M ^b   Eadie, Mervyn J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antiepileptic drugs; Fetal malformations; Monotherapy; Polytherapy; Valproate

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; ETIRACETAM; GABAPENTIN; LAMOTRIGINE; PHENYTOIN; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DRUG EXPOSURE; EPILEPSY; FETUS MALFORMATION; FETUS RISK; HUMAN; MONOTHERAPY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TERATOGENESIS;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ANTICONVULSANTS; AUSTRALIA; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETUS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; REGISTRIES; RISK; RISK FACTORS; TERATOGENS; TRIAZINES; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 77951572957     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2009.02336.x     Document Type: Article

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