Levetiracetam efficacy in refractory partial-onset seizures, especially after failed epilepsy surgery

Epilepsia

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 211-214

  Motamedi, Mahmood ^b   Nguyen, Dang K ^a   Zaatreh, Megdad ^a   Singh, Sanjay P ^a   Westerveld, Michael ^a   Thompson, James L ^a   Mattson, Richard ^a   Blumenfeld, Hal ^a   Novotny, Edward ^a   Spencer, Susan S ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Adjunctive therapy; Epilepsy surgery; Levetiracetam; Refractory epilepsy

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; ETIRACETAM; GABAPENTIN; LAMOTRIGINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGITATION; ANXIETY; APATHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPERSONALIZATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; EPILEPSY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL INSTABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SOMNOLENCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT PLANNING; VERTIGO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICONVULSANTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PIRACETAM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037319146     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2003.26302.x     Document Type: Article

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