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Phenytoin kinetics in Japanese adult epileptics: phenotype of phenytoin slow metabolizers.
Clinical neuropharmacology - 1 Aug 1997
Watanabe M, Iwahashi K, Kugoh T, Suwaki H
Abstract excerpt
Phenytoin pharmacokinetics in 18 of 126 Japanese epileptic patients were investigated using the Michaelis-Menten equation. Five of these (4% of total) patients, who showed significantly high plasma concentrations of phenytoin even when administered a relatively low daily dose of phenytoin, were classified as slow metabolizers; 13 of these, who showed lower plasma concentrations, were classified as normal...
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