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{{* Abrupt stop of carbamazepine can cause serious lamotrigine rash as lamotrigine levels increase. <ref name="Koch"> {{Pubmed|12648898|Koch HJ et al. Clinically relevant reduction of lamotrigine concentrations by carbamazepine. J Clin Psychiatry 2005;66:400-1}}</ref>
* Carbamazepine likely speeds the metabolism of lamotrigine, but the clinical significance is unclear.<ref name="freeman"/><ref name="levyrh"> Levy RH et al, Metabolic Drug Interactions, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2000.</ref>
* These two agents have less significant pharmacologic interactions than do lamotrigine and valproate <ref name="freeman"/>
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