"Therapeutic" serum concentration of phenytoin: the influence of seizure type.
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- 1 March 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
- Vol. 47 (3) , 231-234
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.47.3.231
Abstract
Serum phenytoin concentrations were monitored prospectively in 26 patients with previously untreated partial epilepsy, during monotherapy with phenytoin. Only six remained entirely seizure-free, although only four experienced further tonic-clonic seizures. There was no correlation between serum phenytoin concentrations and freedom from partial seizures in those patients in whom such seizures recurred. There did appear to be a correlation between serum phenytoin concentration and freedom from tonic-clonic seizures.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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