Treatment of refractory simple partial status epilepticus by the addition of oral lacosamide in neurosurgical patients. Report of 3 cases()

Lacosamide is a new antiepileptic drug that has been successfully used for the treatment of partial seizures. We report three neurosurgical cases of simple partial status epilepticus refractory to multiple antiepileptic medications. The addition of oral lacosamide in doses of 200–400 mg in combinati...

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Autores principales: Hadjigeorgiou, Georgios F., Petsanas, Adamantios, Anagnostopoulos, Christos, Chamilos, Christos, Vranos, Georgios, Spyridakis, Philokypros
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4150639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25667831
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ebcr.2013.03.005
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author Hadjigeorgiou, Georgios F.
Petsanas, Adamantios
Anagnostopoulos, Christos
Chamilos, Christos
Vranos, Georgios
Spyridakis, Philokypros
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Petsanas, Adamantios
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description Lacosamide is a new antiepileptic drug that has been successfully used for the treatment of partial seizures. We report three neurosurgical cases of simple partial status epilepticus refractory to multiple antiepileptic medications. The addition of oral lacosamide in doses of 200–400 mg in combination with the existing treatment had successfully controlled the seizures within four days.
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spelling pubmed-41506392015-02-09 Treatment of refractory simple partial status epilepticus by the addition of oral lacosamide in neurosurgical patients. Report of 3 cases() Hadjigeorgiou, Georgios F. Petsanas, Adamantios Anagnostopoulos, Christos Chamilos, Christos Vranos, Georgios Spyridakis, Philokypros Epilepsy Behav Case Rep Case Report Lacosamide is a new antiepileptic drug that has been successfully used for the treatment of partial seizures. We report three neurosurgical cases of simple partial status epilepticus refractory to multiple antiepileptic medications. The addition of oral lacosamide in doses of 200–400 mg in combination with the existing treatment had successfully controlled the seizures within four days. Elsevier 2013-05-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4150639/ /pubmed/25667831 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ebcr.2013.03.005 Text en © 2013 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).
spellingShingle Case Report
Hadjigeorgiou, Georgios F.
Petsanas, Adamantios
Anagnostopoulos, Christos
Chamilos, Christos
Vranos, Georgios
Spyridakis, Philokypros
Treatment of refractory simple partial status epilepticus by the addition of oral lacosamide in neurosurgical patients. Report of 3 cases()
title Treatment of refractory simple partial status epilepticus by the addition of oral lacosamide in neurosurgical patients. Report of 3 cases()
title_full Treatment of refractory simple partial status epilepticus by the addition of oral lacosamide in neurosurgical patients. Report of 3 cases()
title_fullStr Treatment of refractory simple partial status epilepticus by the addition of oral lacosamide in neurosurgical patients. Report of 3 cases()
title_full_unstemmed Treatment of refractory simple partial status epilepticus by the addition of oral lacosamide in neurosurgical patients. Report of 3 cases()
title_short Treatment of refractory simple partial status epilepticus by the addition of oral lacosamide in neurosurgical patients. Report of 3 cases()
title_sort treatment of refractory simple partial status epilepticus by the addition of oral lacosamide in neurosurgical patients. report of 3 cases()
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4150639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25667831
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ebcr.2013.03.005
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