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Monotherapy Trials of New Antiepileptic Drugs
Author(s) -
Beydoun Ahmad
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
epilepsia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.687
H-Index - 191
eISSN - 1528-1167
pISSN - 0013-9580
DOI - 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1997.tb05201.x
Subject(s) - lamotrigine , tiagabine , oxcarbazepine , medicine , carbamazepine , topiramate , epilepsy , gabapentin , anticonvulsant , refractory (planetary science) , clinical trial , partial seizures , phenytoin , lacosamide , anesthesia , psychiatry , alternative medicine , physics , pathology , astrobiology
Summary: A number of clinical trials that test the efficacy and safety of the newer antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) have recently been concluded. Two dose‐response trials in inpatients with refractory partial seizures and outpatients with newly diagnosed partial epilepsy established the efficacy of gabapentin as monotherapy. Lamotrigine was found to have efficacy similar to that of phenytoin and carbamazepine (CBZ) and to be better tolerated than CBZ in patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy. It was also shown to have efficacy as monotherapy in partial seizures, based on the results of an active controlled trial, and in the treatment of absence seizures, based on the results of a responder‐enriched study. Topiramate as monotherapy was found to be efficacious for treatment of partial‐onset seizures, based on the results of a single‐center dose‐response trial. A dose‐response trial that tested the efficacy of tiagabine monotherapy in patients with refractory partial epilepsy was uninformative. Oxcarbazepine was found to be safe and efficacious in four comparative trials in patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy as well as in one placebo‐controlled inpatient trial in patients with refractory partial seizures.