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Asher Ornoy1, Naama Zvi, Judy Arnon

  • 1The Israeli Teratogen Information Service, Laboratory of Teratology, Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School and Israeli Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel. ornoy@cc.huji.ac.il

Reproductive Toxicology (Elmsford, N.Y.)
|April 22, 2008
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In spite of a substantial increase in the use of topiramate at child bearing age, very little is known regarding its use in pregnancy. We describe the outcome of 52 pregnancies with 41 liveborn infants from which it seems that topiramate reduces birth weight without decreasing gestational age at delivery, but does not seem to increase the risk for structural defects. There was an increased rate of spontaneous abortions not related to the drug effects.

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