An open-label, add-on study of pregabalin in patients with partial seizures: A multicenter trial in Greece

Seizure

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 701-705

  Tsounis, Stefanos ^a   Kimiskidis, Vasilios K ^a   Kazis, Dimitrios ^a   Gkiatas, Konstantinos ^b   Garganis, Kyriakos ^c   Karageorgiou, Klimentini ^b   Giannakodimos, Stylianos ^b   Papathanasopoulos, Panagiotis ^d   Plaitakis, Andreas ^e   Papadimitriou, Alexandros ^f   Lyras, Leonidas ^g   Emir, Birol ^h  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c St Loukas Hospital   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^g PFIZER INC   (United States)

^h Pfizer Global Pharmaceuticals   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjunctive treatment; Anxiety; Partial seizures; Pregabalin; Refractory seizures

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; ETIRACETAM; OXCARBAZEPINE; PREGABALIN;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; AGITATION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; ATAXIA; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BREATHING RATE; CONSTIPATION; CONVULSION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GAIT DISORDER; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OPEN STUDY; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADJUVANTS, PHARMACEUTIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053565853     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: 15322688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2011.06.022     Document Type: Article

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