Management of seizures following a stroke: What are the options?

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 533-538

  Gilad, Ronit ^a,b  

^a WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Antiepileptic drugs; Elderly; Seizures; Stroke

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; ETIRACETAM; GABAPENTIN; LAMOTRIGINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; SODIUM;

BONE; COGNITION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ANTICONVULSANTS; HUMANS; SEIZURES; STROKE;

EID: 84862854375     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: 11791969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/11631540-000000000-00000     Document Type: Review

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