Abstract:Carbamazepine and sodium valproate are one of the most common antiepileptic medications used in clinical practice. The period of treatment is commonly associated with benign alternation of the liver enzymes due to drug metabolism. Evaluation of asymptomatic enzymatic changes could be challenging to the expert clinician and may expose patients to unnecessary procedures or expenses. Thus, this article aims to focus on the frequency of liver enzyme abnormalities among epileptic children. For this, an analytic cro… Show more
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