Use and misuse of new antiepileptic drugs

New antiepileptic drugs. II. Clinical use.

Rickets Due To Prolonged Use of Antiepileptic Drugs

La therapeutique ant epileptique de longue duree provoque une profonde modification du metabolisme de la vitamine B et notamment une acceleration du catabolisme de celle-ci.  Les auteurs rapportent un cas de ce type particulier d'osteomalacie et la revue de la lit­terature leur permet de souligner trois points essentiels:  1 ) les besoins journaliers de la vitamine B sontaccrus chez les enfan...

New antiepileptic drugs – an

The last ten years of the 20th century is called in neuroscience “decade of the brain”. This period has brought many new antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) to the practising physician. New AEDs include: vigabatrin, lamotrigine, topiramate, tiagabine, gabapentin, oxcarbazepine, levetiracetam and zonisamide (not registered in Poland). The development of these drugs was under the current epilepsy theory (...

New antiepileptic drugs and women

Since 1990, sixteen new antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) have been introduced. Most of these new AEDs have only been insufficiently studied with respect to women-specific aspects such as endogenous sex hormones, hormonal contraception, pregnancy, breastfeeding, or menopause. This is of concern because it has been shown for some of the new AEDs that these factors may have a clinically significant impa...

P 146: The Best New Antiepileptic Drugs to Prevent Orofacial Malformations as Side Effects of Antiepileptic Drugs

Mothers exposed to Antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) are at high risk to born babies with orofacial malformations such as cleft lips. About 9 percent of congenital abnormalities in babies of mothers with epilepsy relates to orofacial abnormalities. Maintaining safe antiepileptic drugs for millions of mothers with epilepsy is very important. Researches show that new AEDs have less side effects than the...