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Zonisamide for absence seizures

Epilepsy Research, 2005
This chart review investigated the efficacy and safety of zonisamide in 45 patients aged < or = 18 years with absence seizures. Of these patients, 23 (51.1%) achieved freedom from absence seizures. Two patients discontinued zonisamide, 1 for increased seizures and 1 for sleepiness and inefficacy.
Angus Wilfong
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Absence Seizures and Carbamazepine in Adults

Epilepsia, 1994
Summary: Carbamazepine (CBZ) therapy was associated with development of absence seizures in 4 adults with generalized epilepsy. Two patients had new appearance of absence seizures and 2 patients had recrudesence of remote absence seizures. The seizures abated after discontinuation of CBZ therapy or addition of ethosuximide (ESM) in 1 patient ...
Michael R Sperling
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Absence seizure in the elderly

Annals of African Medicine, 2011
Absence seizure is most common in children. It commonly occurs between 5 and 18 years of age; it is not common before the age of 2 years or after adolescence and it is relatively rare in adults over the age of 50. We report a case of electroencephalography confirmed absence seizure and absence status successfully treated with sodium valproate in an ...
Femi, Owolabi L., Sale, S.
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Absence Seizures and Variants

Neurologic Clinics, 1985
Absence seizures include classic absence, impulsive petit mal, juvenile absence seizures with myoclonic phenomena, and atonic-astatic seizures. Proper diagnosis requires careful historical elucidation of the actual seizure events, family history of seizures, and of other neurologic abnormalities.
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