Sodium Oxybate as a Potential New Treatment for Catatonia in Patients With Depression, Bipolar Disorder, or a Psychotic Disorder: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial [PDF]
BackgroundCatatonia is a severe psychomotor syndrome predominantly associated with depressive, bipolar, and psychotic disorders.
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Dosing Optimization of Low-Sodium Oxybate in Narcolepsy and Idiopathic Hypersomnia in Adults: Consensus Recommendations [PDF]
Introduction Low-sodium oxybate (LXB) is approved for treatment of narcolepsy in patients aged 7 years and older and treatment of idiopathic hypersomnia in adults. LXB contains the same active moiety with 92% less sodium than sodium oxybate (SXB). As the
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How once-nightly sodium oxybate is processed in the body in healthy volunteers: a plain language summary [PDF]
What is this summary about? This is a plain language summary of an article originally published in the journal Sleep Medicine. Narcolepsy is a sleep condition in which people have periods of extreme sleepiness during the day.
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A Patient-centric Clinical Trial Design to Comprehensively Evaluate Low-Sodium Oxybate in People with Idiopathic Hypersomnia or Narcolepsy [PDF]
Introduction Low-sodium oxybate (LXB; Xywav®) is approved to treat idiopathic hypersomnia in adults and excessive daytime sleepiness or cataplexy in individuals aged ≥ 7 years with narcolepsy.
Deborah A. Nichols +8 more
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Increasing Evidence for the Use of Sodium Oxybate in Multi-Drug-Resistant Lance–Adams Syndrome [PDF]
Background: Treatment of posthypoxic myoclonus (PHM) can be a challenge in patients not responsive to first-line medications. PMH is a rare condition that has a dramatic impact on patients’ quality of life. Refractory cases are not uncommon. Case report:
Giulietta M. Riboldi, Steven J. Frucht
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Changes in Cataplexy Frequency in a Clinical Trial of Lower-Sodium Oxybate with Taper and Discontinuation of Other Anticataplectic Medications. [PDF]
Correction:Background Lower-sodium oxybate (LXB) is an oxybate medication with the same active moiety as sodium oxybate (SXB) and a unique composition of cations, resulting in 92% less sodium.
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Sodium oxybate – new views on an old candidate This presentation will outline the outcome of a clinical development program, including a Phase 3 study, on sodium oxybate in the treatment of alcohol dependence [PDF]
Sodium oxybate (SMO) has shown efficacy in the treatment of alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS) and in the maintenance of abstinence in alcohol dependent (AD) patients in a series of pilot randomized controlled trials.
J. Guiraud
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Cataplexy response with extended-release once-nightly sodium oxybate: Post hoc responder analyses from the phase 3 REST-ON clinical trial [PDF]
Background: Once-nightly sodium oxybate (ON-SXB), an extended-release oxybate formulation, yielded significant (P
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Preferences for Attributes of Sodium Oxybate Treatment: A Discrete Choice Experiment in Patients with Narcolepsy [PDF]
Jordan Dubow,1 Alon Y Avidan,2 Bruce Corser,3 Amod Athavale,4 David Seiden,1 Clete Kushida5 1Avadel Pharmaceuticals, Chesterfield, MO, USA; 2Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA; 3Sleep Management ...
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Improvements in daytime sleepiness and disrupted nighttime sleep with once-nightly sodium oxybate in people with narcolepsy type 1 and type 2: a plain language summary [PDF]
What is this summary about? This is a plain language summary of a published article in the journal Sleep. Narcolepsy is a sleep condition that has 2 different subtypes: narcolepsy type 1 and narcolepsy type 2. These are called NT1 and NT2 for short.
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