The effect of age and comedication on lamotrigine clearance, tolerability, and efficacy

Epilepsia

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1905-1913

  Arif, Hiba ^a   Svoronos, Alexandra ^a   Resor Jr , Stanley R ^a   Buchsbaum, Richard ^b   Hirsch, Lawrence J ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiepileptic drug; Drug interactions; Elderly; Older adults; Pharmacokinetics

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; ETIRACETAM; FELBAMATE; GABAPENTIN; LAMOTRIGINE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PRIMIDONE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN; ZONISAMIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BALANCE DISORDER; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG RETENTION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP DISORDER; TONIC SEIZURE; TREMOR; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICONVULSANTS; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURAL BALANCE; SLEEP STAGES; TREMOR; TRIAZINES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053574606     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2011.03217.x     Document Type: Article

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