In Brief: Lamotrigine Gets a New Warning
The Carlat Psychiatry Report, Volume 19, Number 5, May 2021
https://www.thecarlatreport.com/newsletter-issue/tcprv19n5/
Issue Links: Learning Objectives | Editorial Information
Topics: Antipsychotics | Carbamazepine | Lamotrigine
Chris Aiken, MD, and Sarah Rivelli, MD.
Dr. Aiken and Dr. Rivelli have disclosed no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
A new warning now sits beneath the list of life-threatening allergic reactions that can happen with lamotrigine. The anticonvulsant is suspected of causing cardiac arrhythmias in susceptible patients by slowing ventricular conduction and widening the QRS.
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