Use of acetazolamide in sulfonamide-allergic patients with neurologic channelopathies

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 527-529

  Platt, Daniel ^a   Griggs, Robert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; POTASSIUM; SULFONAMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ALLERGIC REACTION; ANDERSEN SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIPLOPIA; DYSARTHRIA; EPISODIC ATAXIA; FACE EDEMA; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEURONAL CHANNELOPATHY; NYSTAGMUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; PERIODIC PARALYSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; URTICARIA; VERTIGO; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

ACETAZOLAMIDE; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARBONIC ANHYDRASE INHIBITORS; CHANNELOPATHIES; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SULFONAMIDES;

EID: 84860001753     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneurol.2011.2723     Document Type: Article

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