Carbamazepine Tegretol Blood Test

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Use: Carbamazepine is used commonly to control seizures and epilepsy in children and adults. Due to known adverse effects like red blood cell destruction and aplastic anaemia, monitoring levels is necessary in chronic use. This heterocyclic (iminostilbene) compound has potent antiepileptic properties and is effective alone or with other antiepileptic drugs in partial seizures, especially complex partial seizures, generalized tonic-clonic seizures, and combinations of these seizure types. Carbamazepine generally is ineffective for absence, myoclonic, and atonic seizures. In children with symptomatic generalized epilepsy and continuous spike-and-wave discharge, these seizure types may develop or tonic-clonic seizures may increase in frequency with use of carbamazepine. This drug is increasingly preferred to phenobarbital in pediatric patients because it has less effect on cognition and beh