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carbamazepine
IUPAC name: benzo[b][1]benzazepine-11-carboxamide Synonyms: carbamezepine Formula: C15H12N2O
Uses:	anticonvulsant
Properties:
Hazards:
Mass (g/mol): CAS #: 236.2686 298-46-4

Carbamazepine is an anticonvulsant drug used to treat epilepsy, grand mal seizures and psychomotor or focal seizures, neurologic pain, as from trigenimal neuralgia, psychiatric disorders including manic-depressive illness and dementia related aggression. Its three-dimensional structure and action is similar to that of phentoin despite being quite dissimilar chemically. It is also similar to the tricyclic antidepressant medications.^[1]

Contents 1 Brand names 2 Adverse reactions 3 External links 4 References

Brand names

Apo-Carbamazepine® Atretol® Biston® Calepsin® Carbamazepen® Carbatrol® Carbazepine® Carbelan® Epitol® Equetro® Finlepsin® Karbamazepin® Lexin® Neurotol® Novo-Carbamaz®

Nu-Carbamazepine® Sirtal® Stazepin® Stazepine® Taro-Carbamazepine® Taro-Carbamazepine Cr® Tegretal® Tegretol® Tegretol Chewtabs® Tegretol Cr® Tegretol-Xr® Telesmin® Teril® Timonil®

Adverse reactions

Toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) and Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) may occur in patients with HLA-B*1502 allele who take carbamazepine.^[2].

External links

The most up-to-date information about this and other drugs can be found at the following sites.

• Carbamazepine - FDA approved drug information (drug label) from DailyMed (U.S. National Library of Medicine).

• Carbamazepine - Drug information for patients from MedMaster (U.S. National Library of Medicine).

• Carbamazepine - Detailed information from DrugBank.

References

1. ↑ Drug Bank page for Carbamazepine.
2. ↑ Anonymous. Table of Valid Genomic Biomarkers in the Context of Approved Drug Labels. U.S. Food and Drug Administration