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Seizures and anticonvulsants
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Pharmacology
Professional
05/02/2010

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Phenytoin
Definition
Anticonvulsant, can cause gingival hyperplasia, prolongs inactive state of voltage gated sodium channels
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Carbamazepine
Definition
Anticonvulsant and mood stabilizing drug, used to treat epilepsy and bipolar disorder and trigeminal neuralgia, stabilizes inactive state of Na channels, making brain cells less likely to fire
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Ethosuximide
Definition
Used to prevent absence seizures, blocks T-type voltage gaited Ca channels
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Felbamate
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Anticonvulsant, risk for aplastic anemia
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Tiagabine
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Anticonvulsant
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Valproate
Definition
affects GABA (agonist), blocks voltage gated sodium channels and T-type calcium channels, therapeutic for BOTH generalized absence and generalized tonic clonic seizures.
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