Levetiracetam versus carbamazepine in patients with late poststroke seizures: A multicenter prospective randomized open-label study (Epic Project)

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 282-289

  Consoli, D ^a   Bosco, D ^b   Postorino, P ^a   Galati, F ^a   Plastino, M ^b   Perticoni, G F ^c   Ottonello, G A ^d   Passarella, B ^e   Ricci, S ^f   Neri, G ^c   Toni, D ^f  

^a Operative Unit of Neurology   (Italy)

^b S Giovanni di Dio Hospital   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^e Operative Unit of Neurology   (Italy)

^f SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carbamazepine; Epilepsy; Levetiracetam; Poststroke seizures

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; ETIRACETAM;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FAINTNESS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTSTROKE SEIZURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTIGO; VISUAL DISORDER;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICONVULSANTS; CARBAMAZEPINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PIRACETAM; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84868216511     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: 14219786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000342669     Document Type: Article

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