Open AccessA comparative study on the efficacy of levetiracetam and carbamazepine in the treatment of rolandic seizures in children: An open-label randomized controlled trial
Author(s) -
Parisa Ahadi,
Jafar Nasiri,
Mohammad Reza Ghazavi,
Toktam Mosavian,
Vahid Mansouri
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of research in pharmacy practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2319-9644
pISSN - 2279-042X
DOI - 10.4103/jrpp.jrpp_20_53
Subject(s) - levetiracetam , medicine , carbamazepine , randomized controlled trial , epilepsy , piracetam , open label , pediatrics , anesthesia , rolandic epilepsy , mann–whitney u test , neurology , psychiatry
This study was performed to investigate whether levetiracetam should be preferred to carbamazepine as a treatment choice for benign childhood epilepsy with centro Temporal spikes (BCECTS), the most common partial epilepsy of childhood.