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Use of ethosuximide and valproate in the treatment of epilepsy.

Neurologic clinics (1986-08-01)
S J Wallace
ABSTRACT

Ethosuximide is the drug of first choice in absence seizures. Idiosyncratic side effects are rare. Valproate is effective against absence, generalized tonic-colonic, and partial seizures. It is the drug of choice in photosensitive seizures. Valproate is, on the whole, free from unpleasant side effects, but fatal hepatotoxicity and hyperamnionemia have been reported very rarely.

MATERIALS
Product Number
Brand
Product Description

Sigma-Aldrich
Ethosuximide
Ethosuximide, European Pharmacopoeia (EP) Reference Standard
Supelco
Ethosuximide, Pharmaceutical Secondary Standard; Certified Reference Material