Carbamazepine overdose after exposure to simethicone: a case report
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Carbamazepine overdose after exposure to simethicone: a case report
INTRODUCTION Carbamazepine is an anticonvulsant drug and is also used as a treatment for patients with manic-depressive illness, post-herpetic neuralgia or phantom limb pain. The drug itself has many drug interactions. Simethicone is an antifoaming agent and is reported to be an inert material with no known drug interaction with carbamazepine. CASE PRESENTATION We present a case of a patient ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Case Reports
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1752-1947
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-2-242