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- Phenytoin (PHT), sold under the brand name Dilantin among others, is an anti-seizure medication. It is useful for the prevention of tonic-clonic seizures...
- Phenytoin/pentobarbital (trade name Beuthanasia-D Special) is an animal drug product used for euthanasia, which contains a mixture of phenytoin and pentobarbital...
- Hyperpigmentation, also known as the dark spots on the skin, is the darkening of an area of skin or nails caused by increased melanin. Hyperpigmentation...
- water-soluble phenytoin prodrug that is administered intravenously to deliver phenytoin, potentially more safely than intravenous phenytoin. It is used...
- second-line agent in bipolar disorder. Carbamazepine appears to work as well as phenytoin and valproate for focal and generalized seizures. It is not effective...
- cardiac arrest. Sodium channel blockers, like benzocaine, lidocaine, phenytoin, and tricaine methanesulfonate, are regularly used to produce rapid local...
- benefits, though, tended to be transient in many people, and the addition of phenytoin for lasting control was required in these patients. It is also approved...
- fetus by exposure to teratogenic effects of phenytoin. Dilantin is the brand name of the drug phenytoin sodium in the United States, commonly used in...
- drug in atrial fibrillation, is metabolised by an enzyme called CYP2C9. Phenytoin, a CYP2C9 inducer, would increase its activity and the rate of warfarin...
- spectrum of action than other sodium channel antiepileptic drugs such as phenytoin and is effective in the treatment of the depressed phase of bipolar disorder...