Psychotropic Effects of Antiepileptic Drugs
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Cardiac effects of psychotropic drugs.
INTRODUCTION The incidence of mortality is higher among psychiatric patients than among the general population and the cause of which may be the psychiatric disorder itself or other related factors like life-style and medications. Sudden death has been associated with certain psychotropic drugs and the underlying cause(s) have been suggested to be some adverse cardiac complications. We reviewed...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Epilepsy Currents
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1535-7597,1535-7511
DOI: 10.1111/j.1535-7511.2005.00056.x