Chorea is a rare side effect of anticonvulsants. We describe three patients who developed chorea secondary to anticonvulsant combination use. A mechanism to explain this finding is proposed. After identification of an index case with anticonvulsant-induced chorea, we reviewed the electronic data base records for all patients with seizures followed in the epilepsy clinics at our university-based...

Epilepsy and pregnancy Recurrent seizures affect at least 1% of women who are of childbearing age, but as the fertility of both men and women with epilepsy is slightly reduced,' about one in 200 pregnancies occurs in a woman with epilepsy. Most of these women are taking anticonvulsants regularly. Pregnancy has an unpredictable affect on seizure frequency.2 3 For half of the women with epilepsy ...

Are benzodiazepines and anticonvulsants effective for patient with alcohol withdrawal symptoms？(Are anticonvulsants more effective than benzodiazepines？) P: alcohol withdrawal I: benzodiazepines and anticonvulsants C: placebo or active placebo O: prevent or relief alcohol symptoms (ex: delirium, seizure) , prevent re-intake alcohol 關鍵字(Key words): (alcohol withdrawal and benzodiazepine) (alcoho...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of treatments for the symptoms of painful diabetic neuropathy. DESIGN Systematic review. DATA SOURCES Articles (English and full text) on double blind randomised trials found by searching with the key words anticonvulsant, antidepressant, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, tramadol, opioid, ion channel blocker, diabetic neuropathy, diabetic peripheral n...

Posttraumatic seizures (PTS) have been recognized as a major complication of traumatic brain injury (TBI). The annual incidence of TBI in the United States is 1.7 million. The role of anticonvulsants in the treatment of posttraumatic epilepsy (PTE) remains uncertain. Based on current studies, however, anticonvulsants have been shown to reduce early PTS occurring within the first 7 days, but lit...

Neuroinflammation is an integral part of epilepsy pathogenesis and other convulsive conditions, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) present a potent tool for the contemporary search design novel anticonvulsants. In paper, evaluation anticonvulsant activity potential NSAID dual COX-2/5-LOX inhibitor darbufelone methanesulfonate using scPTZ model in mice dose 100 mg/kg reported. Darbuf...