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| Year : 1999 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 75-76 |
Multiple Drug Interaction Across Medical Specializations
Chittaranjan Andrade
Additional Professor & Head, Department of Psychopharmacology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore 560 029, India
Correspondence Address:
Chittaranjan Andrade
Additional Professor & Head, Department of Psychopharmacology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore 560 029
India
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PMID: 21455359 
An epileptic patient on high dose carbamazepine monotherapy received erythromycin from a physician and ketoconazole from a dermatologist. Carbamazepine neurotoxicity developed as a result of a pharmacokinetic interaction between the three drugs. Precautions are suggested to minimize the risk of such drug interactions that span medical specializations.
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