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Category 3: brivaracetam, ethosuximide, gabapentin, lacosamide, levetiracetam, pregabalin, tiagabine, vigabatrin: Usually unnecessary to ensure that patients are maintained on a specifi...
The precise dose is not established, although it seems that adding anti-epilepsy medication may have more side-effects with no increased efficacy. [ 7 ] Prednisolone may be useful due to its low ...
There is not enough evidence to accurately work out the risk of major congenital malformation for other AEDs taken on their own, such as: Eslicarbazepine Gabapentin Lacosamide Oxcarbaze...
Other anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) that may be considered by the tertiary epilepsy specialist are eslicarbazepine acetate, lacosamide, phenobarbital, phenytoin, pregabalin, tiagabine, vigabatrin...
All the changes relate to drug safety in pregnancy [ 8 ] or the use of vigabatrin because of the risk of an irreversible effect on visual fields. None of the updated recommendations affe...
Topiramate. Vigabatrin. Zonisamide . They all come with different brand names. For women with epilepsy, the risk of complications during pre...
Other treatment considerations The following medications may exacerbate seizures in people with Lennox–Gastaut syndrome: carbamazepine, gabapentin, lacosamide, oxcarbazepine, phenobarbital, pregabali...
Third-line add-on treatments include phenobarbital, phenytoin, tiagabine and vigabatrin. Some drugs used in clinical practice can exacerbate seizures in those with absence or myoc...
This tends to be bilateral - eg: Chloroquine can cause a classic bull's-eye maculopathy affecting the centre of the field [ 5 ] . Vigabatrin can cause field defects in up to 40%...
In addition, the committee highlighted the risk of an irreversible effect on visual fields with use of vigabatrin and advised careful consideration of the risk:benefit ratio. More infor...
Women taking anticonvulsants that do not induce liver enzymes (eg, gabapentin, levetiracetam, valproate and vigabatrin) may use any method without restriction. Women taking anticonvulsants...
Gabapentin and probably vigabatrin can be used to treat convulsions. Very occasionally, acute attacks are accompanied by a severe adrenergic crisis leading to posterior reversible encephal...
Anticonvulsants including sodium valproate, gabapentin, vigabatrin and carbamazepine. Antipsychotics, especially the atypical antipsychotics aripiprazole, chlorpromazine, clozapine, olanza...
Other potential causes of drug-induced maculopathy include: Vigabatrin - in around a third of cases, a visual field defect develops which is largely asymptomatic but optic atrophy may oc...
Anticonvulsants, particularly sodium valproate, gabapentin, vigabatrin. Antipsychotics, especially the atypical antipsychotics amisulpride, aripiprazole, clozapine, olanzapine, quetiapine ...