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- Title
Famine-associated AED Toxicity in Rural Zambia.
- Authors
Birbeck, Gretchen Lano; Kalichi, Ellie M.N.
- Abstract
The plight of people with epilepsy (PWE) in developing countries is generally presented in the context of very limited access to care and social stigmatization arising from the disorder. Epilepsy Care Team observed another unfortunate consequence of epilepsy in the developing world, antiepileptic drug (AED) toxicity due to the acute weight loss and metabolic changes experienced by PWE during times of famine. Whether renal or hepatic dysfunction occurring as a result of their poor nutritional state played a role in toxicity remains unknown, because people cannot assess these parameters or drug levels at Chikankata.
- Subjects
EPILEPSY; DEVELOPING countries; ANTICONVULSANTS; WEIGHT loss; BRAIN diseases
- Publication
Epilepsia (Series 4), 2003, Vol 44, Issue 8, p1127
- ISSN
0013-9580
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1528-1157.2003.22403.x