Antiepileptic Drugs and Pregnancy A Guide for Prescribers /

• Main Authors: Eadie, MJ (Author), Vajda, FJE (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Adis, 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; General practice (Medicine).; Obstetrics.; Maternal and child health services.; Neurology.; Medicine & Public Health.; General Practice / Family Medicine.; Obstetrics/Perinatology.; Maternal and Child Health.

A description of our current understanding of antiepileptic drug use during pregnancy, this book includes chapters on the impact of seizures on the mother and developing child, changes in maternal physiology during pregnancy and its impact on drug disposition, and the pharmacokinetic differences bet...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Antiepileptic drugs and becoming pregnant
• Part I. Antiepileptic Drug Pharmacokinetics in Pregnancy
• 3. Antiepileptic drug disposition and pregnancy
• 4. The older antiepileptic drugs
• 5. Commonly used newer antiepileptic drugs
• 6. Antiepileptic drugs sometimes used in pregnancy
• Part II. Antiepileptic Drugs and the Foetus
• 7. Antiepileptic drugs, epileptic seizures and the foetus
• 8. Antiepileptic drugs and foetal malformations - a possible class effect
• 9. Particular antiepileptic drugs and foetal malformations
• 10. Antiepileptic drugs, cognition and neurodevelopment
• Part III. Antiepileptic Drug use and Pregnancy
• 11. Antiepileptic drug therapy: management issues and pregnancy
• 12. Antiepileptic drugs and pregnancy – the future.