Mephenytoin
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mephenytoin-277-17071035
title:
Mephenytoin
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Mephenytoin is a hydantoin, used as an anticonvulsant. It was introduced approximately 10 years after phenytoin, in the late 1940s. The significant metabolite of mephenytoin is nirvanol (5-ethyl-5-phenylhydantoin), which was the first hydantoin. However, nirvanol is quite toxic and mephenytoin was only considered after other less toxic anticonvulsants had failed. It can cause potentially fatal blood dyscrasia in 1% of patients. Mephenytoin is no longer available in the US or the UK. It is still
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Chemical compound
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mephenytoin
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date modified:
2023-01-13T13:06:42Z
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