ABSTRACT

Epilepsy patients face not only the risk of possible trauma experienced during a violent seizure (a fall or striking something, for example), patients using antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) are also at high risk of bone fracture because some medications have an adverse effect on vitamin D metabolism. Described in this article is the case of a 72-year-old patient with generalized epileptic seizures and no history of trauma who experienced ongoing pain in shoulder girdle that was diagnosed as bilateral fracture of humerus with limb tomography.

Keywords: Antiepileptic drugs, bilateral fracture of humerus, osteoporosis