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Status Epilepticus in Children with Epilepsy:The Role of Antiepileptic Drug Levels in Prevention
Pediatrics 98:1119-1121, Maytal,J.,et al, 1996
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Article Abstract
Neurologically abnormal children with preexisting epilepsy are at high risk for development of SE despite having therapeutic AED levels at that time.Acute precipitants of SE such as fever or AED withdrawal may play a role in inducing SE only in a minority of patients.
 
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