Role of Anticonvulsants in the Management of Posttraumatic Epilepsy
Frontiers in Neurology, 2016 Posttraumatic seizures have been recognized as a major complication of traumatic brain injury. The annual incidence of traumatic brain injury in the United States is 1.7 million.
Batool F Kirmani, Jason H Huang
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2018 Aim: Anticonvulsant medications are frequently used in clinical practice to treat psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents, but the evidence for their efficacy is uncertain.
Chiara Davico +2 more
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Reduced Effect of Anticonvulsants on AMPA Receptor Palmitoylation-Deficient Mice
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 AMPA receptors are responsible for fast excitatory synaptic transmission in the mammalian brain. Post-translational protein S-palmitoylation of AMPA receptor subunits GluA1-4 reversibly regulates synaptic AMPA receptor expression, resulting in long ...
Madoka Iizumi +4 more
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Refractory and super-refractory status epilepticus and evidence for the use of ketamine: a scope review [PDF]
Journal of Neurocritical Care, 2023 Status epilepticus (SE) is a neurological emergency with serious consequences for neuronal tissues, therefore, it is considered the most serious manifestation of epilepsy.
Luis Espinosa +3 more
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Five years of a single burn center experience with toxic epidermal necrolysis: retrospective study of causative drugs and the clinical outcome [PDF]
Reviews in Clinical Medicine, 2022 Background: Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) are rare, but potentially life-threatening reactions to medications. Both conditions have significant morbidity and mortality.
Alireza Sedaghat +5 more
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Role of Anticonvulsants in the Management of AIDS related Seizures
Frontiers in Neurology, 2014 Seventy percent of the AIDS patients have neurological complications. Seizures are one of the complications and can occur at any stage. Seizures can be life–threatening and treatment with anticonvulsants is warranted.
BATOOL F. KIRMANI +1 more
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Early Administration of Gabapentinoids Improves Motor Recovery after Human Spinal Cord Injury
Cell Reports, 2017 The anticonvulsant pregabalin promotes neural regeneration in a mouse model of spinal cord injury (SCI). We have also previously observed that anticonvulsants improve motor outcomes following human SCI.
Freda M. Warner +10 more
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Comparative vascular effects of levetiracetam and valproate with hyperhomocysteinemia in rat models
Türk Biyokimya Dergisi, 2023 Hyperhomocysteinemia (HHcy) a significant risk factor for vascular disease, often emerges in epilepsy with the use of antiepileptic drugs. In this relationship, our study investigates the combined effects of HHcy and antiepileptics on vascular function ...
Gökdemir Selim +6 more
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Anticonvulsants and Serum Cholesterol
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1992 The effect of antiepileptic drugs (AED) on total cholesterol, high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol and triglycerides was studied in 208 epileptic children compared with 175 normal children at the University of Bologna, Italy.
J Gordon Millichap
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Neuropsychological Effects of Anticonvulsants
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2015 Investigators from 7 centers in Korea conducted a prospective, multicenter study with patients randomized into two open-label, parallel groups and treated with either levetiracetam (LVT) or carbamazepine (CBZ) monotherapy for newly diagnosed focal ...
Lindsey Morgan, Alexandra Shaw
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