The risk of hypotension and seizures in patients receiving prophylactic anti- epileptic drugs for supratentorial craniotomy.
CONCLUSION: LEV alone and in combination with LCM for patients without and with symptomatic epilepsy as seizure prophylaxis provides a safe and feasible alternative to PHT. PHT was associated with an unfavorable drop in blood pressure during anesthesia and more adverse reactions.
PMID: 27854111 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Neurosurgical Sciences - Category: Neurosurgery Tags: J Neurosurg Sci Source Type: research
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