Management of provoked seizure

Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 2-8

  Misra, Usha ^a   Kalita, Jayantee ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Alcohol; cerebral venous sinus thrombosis; liver failure; porphyria; provoked seizure; renal failure; stroke; traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CAMPTOTHECIN DERIVATIVE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CARMUSTINE; CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; CISPLATIN; DIAZEPAM; DOXORUBICIN; ETIRACETAM; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; GABAPENTIN; LAMOTRIGINE; LORAZEPAM; METHOTREXATE; NITROSOUREA; OXAZEPAM; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; TAMOXIFEN; TAXANE DERIVATIVE; TENIPOSIDE; THIAMINE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN; VINBLASTINE; VINCA ALKALOID;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; AMNESIA; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUBERCULOSIS; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILDHOOD INJURY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CRANIOTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GLIOMA; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER DISEASE; LOW DRUG DOSE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MONOTHERAPY; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PORPHYRIA; PRIMARY TUMOR; RADIATION INJURY; REVIEW; REYE SYNDROME; SEIZURE; SKULL FRACTURE; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WILSON DISEASE; WITHDRAWAL SEIZURE;

EID: 79957564652     PISSN: 09722327     EISSN: 19983549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0972-2327.78041     Document Type: Review

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