Role of Anticonvulsants in the Management of Posttraumatic Epilepsy
Frontiers in Neurology, 2016 Posttraumatic seizures have been recognized as a major complication of traumatic brain injury. The annual incidence of traumatic brain injury in the United States is 1.7 million.
Batool F Kirmani, Jason H Huang
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Prophylactic Anticonvulsants in Intracerebral Hemorrhage [PDF]
Neurocritical Care, 2017 Background and Purpose Prophylactic anticonvulsants are routinely prescribed in the acute setting for intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) patients, but some studies have reported an association with worse outcomes.
Blatsioris, Ashley D. +10 more
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Magnesium sulphate and other anticonvulsants for women with pre-eclampsia
The Cochrane Library, 2010 BACKGROUND Eclampsia, the occurrence of a seizure (fit) in association with pre-eclampsia, is rare but potentially life-threatening. Magnesium sulphate is the drug of choice for treating eclampsia. This review assesses its use for preventing eclampsia.
Lelia Duley
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2018 Aim: Anticonvulsant medications are frequently used in clinical practice to treat psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents, but the evidence for their efficacy is uncertain.
Chiara Davico +2 more
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Increasing use of atypical antipsychotics and anticonvulsants during pregnancy
Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, 2013 William V Bobo
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Reduced Effect of Anticonvulsants on AMPA Receptor Palmitoylation-Deficient Mice
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 AMPA receptors are responsible for fast excitatory synaptic transmission in the mammalian brain. Post-translational protein S-palmitoylation of AMPA receptor subunits GluA1-4 reversibly regulates synaptic AMPA receptor expression, resulting in long ...
Madoka Iizumi +4 more
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Refractory and super-refractory status epilepticus and evidence for the use of ketamine: a scope review [PDF]
Journal of Neurocritical Care, 2023 Status epilepticus (SE) is a neurological emergency with serious consequences for neuronal tissues, therefore, it is considered the most serious manifestation of epilepsy.
Luis Espinosa +3 more
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Five years of a single burn center experience with toxic epidermal necrolysis: retrospective study of causative drugs and the clinical outcome [PDF]
Reviews in Clinical Medicine, 2022 Background: Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) are rare, but potentially life-threatening reactions to medications. Both conditions have significant morbidity and mortality.
Alireza Sedaghat +5 more
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Anticonvulsants in neuropathic pain: rationale and clinical evidence
European Journal of Pain, 2002 Troels Staehelin Jensen, Dirk J Duncker
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Role of Anticonvulsants in the Management of AIDS related Seizures
Frontiers in Neurology, 2014 Seventy percent of the AIDS patients have neurological complications. Seizures are one of the complications and can occur at any stage. Seizures can be life–threatening and treatment with anticonvulsants is warranted.
BATOOL F. KIRMANI +1 more
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