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Severe phenytoin toxicity in a CYP2C9*3*3 homozygous mutant from India.
Neurology India - 1 Jan 2000
Ramasamy Kesavan, Narayan Sunil K, Chanolean Shashindran, Chandrasekaran Adithan
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The authors report an Indian adult female patient with a history of generalized tonic clonic seizures who developed severe features of phenytoin (DPH) toxicity on therapeutic dosage of this antiepileptic drug. Administration of 300 mg/day of DPH in this patient resulted in toxic symptoms associated with an excessive serum DPH concentration of 33 microg/ml. The PCR-RFLP analysis revealed a homozygosity involving...
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