Managing epilepsy in pregnancy

Neurology India

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 59-65

  Thomas, Sanjeev V ^a  

^a SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Antiepileptic drugs; pregnancy; teratogenic effects; women with epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; LAMOTRIGINE; LORAZEPAM; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; VALPROIC ACID; VITAMIN K GROUP;

BREAST FEEDING EDUCATION; CATAMENIAL EPILEPSY; CHILD REARING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FETUS MALFORMATION; FETUS RISK; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NEWBORN HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST; SEIZURE; TERATOGENESIS; TERATOGENICITY;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ANTICONVULSANTS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFERTILITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 79952353214     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: 19984022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.76860     Document Type: Review

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