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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Neurol. 2010 Jan 7;17(6):882–884. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-1331.2009.02926.x

Table 2.

Use of specific medications among 82 future brain donors

Medication Proportion of cases
who had been
prescribed the
medication and
remained on it		 Proportion of cases
who had been
prescribed the
medication and had
stopped it
Propranolol 34/66 (51.5%) 32/66 (48.5%)
Primidone 19/45 (42.2%) 26/45 (57.8%)
Diazepam 3/30 (10.0%) 27/30 (90.0%)
Topiramate 7/13 (53.9%) 6/13 (46.1%)
Phenobarbital 0/8 (0%) 8/8 (100%)
Gabapentin 1/7 (14.3%) 6/7 (85.7%)
Clozapine 0/6 (0%) 6/6 (100%)
Mirtazapine 1/4 (25.0%) 3/4 (75.0%)
Acetazolamide 0/1 (0%) 1/1 (100%)

Some patients had used >1 medication.