Endocrine Disorders Induced by Antiepileptic Drugs

Abstract

Endocrine disturbances in adolescent women with epilepsy, and the effects of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) and hormonal contraception are discussed by a pediatric neurologist and epileptologist at the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.

Keywords

• endocrine disturbances
• antiepileptic drugs
• hyperinsulinemia