منابع مشابه
Chronic toxicity in epileptic patients receiving single-drug treatment.
is to maintain normoglycaemia, as hypoglycaemia deprives the brain of substrate for respiration and causes cerebral damage similar to that caused by hypoxia. Intravenous dextrose together with glucagon is the traditional method of treating hypoglycaemia and, if cerebral oedema occurs, intramuscular dexamethasone and intravenous mannitol may be used. When a large dose of depot insulin has been i...
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The use of medicines in children is an area of increasing after this syndrome was noted, pharmacokinetic studies showed that newborn infants had impaired metabolism interest [1]. Many medicines are being used outside the terms of their product licence [2] thereby increasing of chloramphenicol and that a reduction of the dosage from 100 mg kg−1 daily to 50 mg kg−1 daily prevented the risk of dru...
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The drug taking habits and compliance of 16 epileptic children were studied by means of a questionnaire, "pill" count and serum antiepileptic drug levels (AEDL). The questionnaire method overestimated patients' compliance while, because of the pharmacokinetics of antiepileptic drugs in children, single outpatients' drug levels may be misleading thereby not always reflecting the true degree of c...
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Objectives Decisions regarding choice and dose of anti-epileptic drug (AED) are driven by considering the potential benefits of reducing seizure frequency against the potential harms of alternative AEDs. Such decisions should be made using the best available evidence, which often requires a quantitative synthesis of data from multiple randomised controlled trials (RCT). However, the systematic ...
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BACKGROUND Seizures in up to one third of children with epilepsy may not be controlled by the first anti-epileptic drug (AED). In this study, we describe multiple AED usage in children attending a referral clinic in Uganda, the factors associated with multiple AED use and seizure control in affected patients. METHODS One hundred thirty nine patients attending Mulago hospital paediatric neurol...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Children
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2227-9067
DOI: 10.3390/children5050057