[Neonatal seizures caused by lamotrigin withdrawal?].
We report about a 3-day-old full-term newborn who suffered from series of tonic-clonic and myoclonic seizures. His mother was treated with lamotrigin for epilepsy. It is worthy of note that the drug level of the neonate had already decreas-ed to 37% of the basic level of his mother. At the same time, there was a catabolic metabolic situation and a mild hyponatriaemia. We believe that the neonatal seizures were caused by lamotrigin withdrawal.
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Gemeinschaftskrankenhaus Herdecke, Klinik für Kinderheilkunde und Jugendmedizin, Herdecke, Germany. s.vieker@gemeinschaftskrankenhaus.de
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