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A synthetic compound related to hydantoin, used as an anticonvulsant in the treatment of epilepsy.
Examples of phenytoin in a Sentence
Targets include other AEDs, particularly phenytoin, phenobarbitone, carbamazepine epoxide, and lamotrigine.
Phenytoin may also raise the serum glucose level in diabetic patients.
A predominantly sensory peripheral polyneuropathy has been observed in patients receiving long-term phenytoin therapy.
Dilantin Capsules contain phenytoin sodium 30 mg and 100 mg.
Phenytoin (300 mg once daily) decreased the C max and AUC tau of voriconazole by 49% and 69 %, respectively.
Large doses may also decrease the effects of phenytoin (Dilantin), a seizure medication.
After surgery, anticonvulsant drugs such as phenytoin may help control or prevent seizures, which can begin as late as two years after the head injury.
Anticonvulsant drugs, including phenytoin, are used to control seizures.
Phenytoin is used both to control epileptic seizures and to control irregular heart beats.
Hydantoins, the class that includes phenytoin, mephenytoin, and ethotoin, seem to work by reducing the flow of sodium into and out of nerve cells.
This fact is particularly relevant to phenytoin, which comes in liquid, chewable tablets, short-acting capsules and long-acting capsules.
Drugs such as phenytoin (Dilantin) and carbamazepine (Tegretol) are prescribed to treat the pain associated with nerve damage.
Care should be used in combining SSRIs with major or minor tranquilizers or with anti-epileptic agents such as phenytoin (Dilantin) or carbamazepine (Tegretol).
These drugs include zidovudine (Retrovir), phenytoin (Dilantin), and azathioprine (Imuran).