نتایج جستجو برای: levetiracetam

تعداد نتایج: 1764  

اعتمادی, پردیس , رمیم, طیّب , قینی, محمدرضا , معتمدی, محمود ,

Background: Choosing the right drug with the least side effects and highest effectiveness for the control of seizures in the elderly is important. The aim of this study was compare the efficacy of lamotrigine and levetiracetam in the management of epilepsy in the elderly.Methods: This study was performed as a double-blind randomized clinical trial in patients that referred to the neurologic cli...

Arezou Farajpour , Mehran Homam , Saman Khadem , Zahra Mostafavian ,

Background: Migraine and other recurrent headaches are considered a major public health concern. Levetiracetam, a broad spectrum anti-epileptic have been used in migraine prophylaxis. Objectives: Assessment the efficacy of levetiracetam on migraine in comparison to sodium valproate. Materials and Methods: This randomized double blind clinical trial was performed on patients with migraine ...

2014
Hisanao Akiyama Yoshiteru Haga Naoshi Sasaki Toshiyuki Yanagisawa Yasuhiro Hasegawa

Several studies have reported rhabdomyolysis induced by various drugs but not by the antiepileptic drug levetiracetam. We present a case of suspected levetiracetam-induced rhabdomyolysis. A 29-year-old woman was hospitalized for generalized tonic-clonic seizure and given levetiracetam for the first time. One day after starting levetiracetam, she developed myalgia, particularly backache, and wea...

2015
Orakwue A. Molokwu Birinus A. Ezeala-Adikaibe Ikenna O. Onwuekwe

BACKGROUND Levetiracetam-induced rage is a rare neurobehavioral adverse effect of levetiracetam that is characterized by seething rage, uncontrollable anger, fits of fury, depression, violence, and suicidal tendencies. It occurs more in patients with prior mood or psychotic disturbances. No such case has been reported in Nigeria. METHOD We report two cases of levetiracetam-induced rage. The f...

Journal: :jundishapur journal of chronic disease care 0
zahra tolou-ghamari isfahan urology and kidney transplantation research center, isfahan university of medical sciences, isfahan, ir iran; isfahan urology and kidney transplantation research center, faculty of medicine, isfahan university of medical sciences, isfahan, ir iran

conclusions administration of aeds in general and levetiracetam in particular should be based on attention to pharmacokinetic behavior in terms of monotherapy or polypharmacy. case presentation two cases were studied, one patient was a 32-year-old male and the other was a 14-year-old female. the key words relevant to search topics were surveyed using pubmed (united states national library of me...

Journal: :Seizure 2004
S.Pradeep Kumar Philip E.M. Smith

Levetiracetam is highly effective as add-on treatment in refractory partial-onset seizures but there are only limited data supporting its benefit in generalised epilepsies. We have reviewed the clinical records of 25 consecutive adult patients with generalised epilepsies (84% females; mean age 34 (range 16-75) years) prescribed levetiracetam for at least six months. The epilepsy was considered ...

2012
D. R. Shakya A. Dutta R. Gautam

Levetiracetam, a relatively new antiepileptic drug (AED), is used mainly as adjuvant and less as monotherapy of seizure. Though rare, Levetiracetam is reported to induce hallucination. To highlight the potential of this adverse drug event, we report a seizure-case that had auditory hallucination with Levetiracetam. A 32-year lady had 7-year history of unresponsive spells which increased in the ...

Journal: :caspian journal of neurological sciences 0
mehran homam arezou farajpour saman khadem zahra mostafavian assistant professor of community medicine, mashhad branch, islamic azad university, mashhad, iran ; [email protected]

background: migraine and other recurrent headaches are considered a major public health concern. levetiracetam, a broad spectrum anti-epileptic have been used in migraine prophylaxis. objectives: assessment the efficacy of levetiracetam on migraine in comparison to sodium valproate. materials and methods: this randomized double blind clinical trial was performed on patients with migraine headac...

2017
Seher Erdogan Mehmet Bosnak

Levetiracetam is a new antiepileptic drug. In addition to epilepsy, it is also used for treating anxiety disorders and dystonia as well as tardive dyskinesia associated with the use of levodopa and neuroleptic drugs. Phenytoin therapy in a 10-year-old boy with convulsions was discontinued following cardiac rhythm impairment. The patient was then started on levetiracetam. However, visual and aud...

Journal: :Seizure 2014
Elisabeth Halma Anton J.A. de Louw Sylvia Klinkenberg Albert P. Aldenkamp Dominique M. IJff Marian Majoie

PURPOSE Children with epilepsy are more likely to have behavioral problems compared to children without epilepsy. Literature suggests that levetiracetam leads to behavioral side-effects in children with epilepsy. The objective of this study is to provide a better overview of the frequency and variety of behavioral side-effects, which can be initiated by levetiracetam therapy in children with ep...

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