Abstract

STUDY OF PHENYTOIN DRUG RELATED WITH PHARMACOVIGILANCE

Jadhav Ravindra Santosh*, Musale Yogesh Jagannath, Gore Shankar Datta and Nagare Bhakti Suhas

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Abstract

Pharmacovigilance deals with safety & monitoring of drugs for purpose of detection of frequency of adverse drug reaction to improve patients' healthcare & safety. Adverse drug reactions have been large scale problem in developing counties which brings pharmacovigilance as a major field in drug manufacturing & development. Pharmacovigilance is aimed at increasing reporting rates and minimizing adverse drug reactions. As pharmacovigilance is concerned with toxicology studies of drug this study deals with the account of phenytoin (referred as antiepileptic and anticonvulsant drug) This review is concerned with data collected about toxicology & account of phenytoin.

Keywords: Pharmacovigilance, toxicology, phenytoin, adverse drug reaction, clinical trials.