How safe is it to withdraw antiepileptic drugs following successful surgery for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy?

Epilepsia

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 627-635

  Rathore, Chaturbhuj ^a   Panda, Samhita ^a   Sarma, P Sankara ^a   Radhakrishnan, Kurupath ^a  

^a SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Anterior temporal lobectomy; Antiepileptic drug withdrawal; Epilepsy surgery; Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy; Seizure recurrence; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; CLONAZEPAM; ETIRACETAM; LAMOTRIGINE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; TOPIRAMATE; ZONISAMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EEG ABNORMALITY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; POLYPHARMACY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETREATMENT; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; WITHDRAWAL SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; ANTICONVULSANTS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; SCLEROSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952539581     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2010.02890.x     Document Type: Article

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