UVA Health is launching a $30 million, multisite clinical trial to determine if the powerful anesthetic ketamine can save patients from prolonged, life-threatening grand mal epilepsy seizures that won ...

Purpose: The role of levetiracetam in different epileptic, nonepileptic, neurologic, and psychiatric disorders is discussed. Summary: Levetiracetam, an antiepileptic drug (AED), was first approved ...

In April 2022, this was an off-label use of levetiracetam. See NICE's information on prescribing medicines. If convulsive status epilepticus does not respond to a second-line treatment, consider ...

Focal motor status epilepticus associated with right hemispheric ... phenytoin was given for 5 years together with varying combinations of levetiracetam, clobazam, oxcarbazepine, lamotrigine ...

Shorvon et al. [20] conducted a multicenter, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of levetiracetam as add-on therapy in patients with ...