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Observational Study
Response to antiseizure medications in neonates with acute symptomatic seizures.
- Hannah C Glass, Janet S Soul, Catherine J Chu, Shavonne L Massey, Courtney J Wusthoff, Taeun Chang, Maria Roberta Cilio, Sonia L Bonifacio, Nicholas S Abend, Cameron Thomas, Monica Lemmon, Charles E McCulloch, Renée A Shellhaas, and Neonatal Seizure Registry study group.
- Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
- Epilepsia. 2019 Mar 1; 60 (3): e20-e24.
AbstractIn a prospective cohort of 534 neonates with acute symptomatic seizures, 66% had incomplete response to the initial loading dose of antiseizure medication (ASM). Treatment response did not differ by gestational age, sex, medication, or dose. The risk of incomplete response was highest for seizures due to intracranial hemorrhage and lowest for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, although the difference was not significant after adjusting for high seizure burden and therapeutic hypothermia treatment. Future trial design may test ASMs in neonates with all acute symptomatic seizure etiologies and could target neonates with seizures refractory to an initial ASM.Wiley Periodicals, Inc. © 2019 International League Against Epilepsy.
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