Combining-Carbamazepine-Lamotrigine

Carbamazepine
Type moodstabilizer
Group anticonvulsant
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ATC-code N03AF01
Medscape Carbamazepine
PubChem 2554
PubMed Carbamazepine
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Kompas (Dutch) Carbamazepine
Wikipedia Carbamazepine
Lamotrigine
Type moodstabilizer
Group anticonvulsant
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ATC-code N03AX09
PubChem 3878
PubMed Lamotrigine
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Adding lamotrigine to carbamazepine.

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  • Carbamazepine is principally metabolized by CYP3A4, and is a potent inducer of CYP1A2, CYP2C9, CYP3A4 and UDP-glucuronosyltransferases.
  • Lamotrigine is principally metabolised by UDP-glucuronosyltransferases.

 

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  • Add lamotrigine according to the general dosing advice. Dose adjustment of carbamazepine is not necessary when lamotrigine is added.[6][7]
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  • Abrupt stop of carbamazepine can cause serious lamotrigine rash as lamotrigine levels increase.[8]
  • Carbamazepine likely speeds the metabolism of lamotrigine, but the clinical significance is unclear.[6][9]
  • Lamotrigine may increase blood levels of carbamazepine metabolites, which can result in neurotoxicity (data about this are contradictory).[6][9]
  • These two agents have less significant pharmacologic interactions than do lamotrigine and valproate.[6][9]


  1. ↑ WHO Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics Methodology ATC=N03AF01
  2. ↑ 2.02.1 Farmacotherapeutisch Kompas; Toxicologie (dutch)
  3. ↑ 3.03.1 Farmacotherapeutisch Kompas - carbamazepine (dutch) Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "ftk" defined multiple times with different content
  4. ↑ KNMP; Informatorium Medicamentorum 2015; Monografie "carbamazepine" (Dutch)
  5. ↑ Drugs.com lamotrigine
  6. ↑ 6.06.16.26.3 Freeman et al. Mood stabilizer Combinations: A Review of Safety and Efficacy. Am J Psychiatry 1998;155:12-21
  7. ↑ Interactions between lamotrigine and carbamazepine on drugs.com
  8. ↑ Koch HJ et al. Clinically relevant reduction of lamotrigine concentrations by carbamazepine. J Clin Psychiatry 2005;66:400-1
  9. ↑ 9.09.19.2 Levy RH et al, Metabolic Drug Interactions, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2000.
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