Pregnancy in women with epilepsy - Risks and management

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 614-615

  Meador, Kimford J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; ETIRACETAM; LAMOTRIGINE; PHENOBARBITAL; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG USE; EPILEPSY; FETUS MALFORMATION; HUMAN; MONOTHERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; TERATOGENICITY;

EID: 84908504691     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2014.179     Document Type: Review

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