Acute Phenytoin Intoxication: Causes, Symptoms, Misdiagnoses, and Outcomes

Phenytoin is a commonly prescribed antiepileptic drug. Due to its saturation (zero-order) pharmacokinetics, phenytoin carries a special risk of dose-related toxicity that is an important issue in emergency medicine. The purpose of this cross-sectional case-series study was to investigate the causes,...

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Main Authors: Wen-Juh Hwang, Jing-Jane Tsai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2004-12-01
Series:Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1607551X09702621