Gastrointestinal adverse effects of antiepileptic drugs in intractable epileptic patients

Seizure

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 343-346

  Jahromi, Soodeh Razeghi ^a   Togha, Mansoureh ^a,b   Fesharaki, Sohrab Hashemi ^a   Najafi, Masoumeh ^a   Moghadam, Nahid Beladi ^c   Kheradmand, Jalil Arab ^a   Kazemi, Hadi ^a,e   Gorji, Ali ^d  

^a Shefa Neuroscience Research Center   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^e SHAHED UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Clinical study; Pharmacotherapy; Refractory epilepsy; Seizure

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; GABAPENTIN; LAMOTRIGINE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; VALPROIC ACID;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DYSPHAGIA; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOTHERAPY; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICONVULSANTS; EPILEPSY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 79954419728     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2010.12.011     Document Type: Article

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