Termination of absence status epilepticus by low-dose intravenous levetiracetam

Epilepsia

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1289-1290

  Altenmüller, Dirk Matthias ^a   Kühn, Anne ^a   Surges, Rainer ^a   Schulze Bonhage, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; ETIRACETAM; LAMOTRIGINE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; ZONISAMIDE;

ABSENCE; ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC STATE; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; LETTER; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; PIRACETAM; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 47249098510     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01706_7.x     Document Type: Letter

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