The adverse event profile of pregabalin: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Epilepsia

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 826-836

  Zaccara, Gaetano ^a,e   Gangemi, Pierfranco ^b   Perucca, Piero ^c   Specchio, Luigi ^d  

^a Azienda Sanitaria di Firenze   (Italy)

^b Anffas Rehabilitation Institute   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^e SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adverse effects; Antiepileptic drugs; Epilepsy; Meta analysis; Pregabalin; Side effects

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; PREGABALIN;

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABNORMAL SENSATION; ABNORMAL THINKING; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AMBLYOPIA; AMNESIA; ANORGASMIA; ANXIETY; ASTHENIA; ATAXIA; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BACKACHE; BALANCE DISORDER; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFUSION; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONSTIPATION; CONTUSION; CONVULSION; COORDINATION DISORDER; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DEPERSONALIZATION; DEPRESSION; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIARRHEA; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISORIENTATION; DIZZINESS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUNK SENSATION; DYSPEPSIA; ECZEMA; EDEMA; EUPHORIA; FALLING; FATIGUE; FIBROMYALGIA; FLATULENCE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEADACHE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERHIDROSIS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPERVOLEMIA; HYPOTENSION; INCREASED APPETITE; INFECTION; INSOMNIA; JOINT SWELLING; LETHARGY; LIBIDO DISORDER; MALAISE; MEMORY DISORDER; META ANALYSIS; NAUSEA; NERVOUSNESS; NEURALGIA; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NEUROPATHY; PAIN; PANIC; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REFLEX; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIDE EFFECT; SINUSITIS; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SOMNOLENCE; SPASTICITY; SPEECH DISORDER; SWEATING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THIRST; THORAX PAIN; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREMOR; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URINE INCONTINENCE; VERTIGO; VOMITING; XEROSTOMIA;

ANALGESICS; ANTICONVULSANTS; EPILEPSY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; NEURALGIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 79953700565     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2010.02966.x     Document Type: Review

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