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Eslicarbazepine
S-licarbazepine is an AED. Adjunctive eslicarbazepine led to seizure reduction in patients with severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy[1][2]
Pharmacy and chemistry
Eslicarbamazepine acetate is an once-daily antiepileptic that was approved in 2009 by the EMA (Zerebix TM) and recently by the American FDA[3] Eslicarbamazepine is the prodrug of S-licarbazepine, both oxcarbazapine and eslicarbazepine metabolize same, different to carbazepine; the latter metabolizes to CBZ 10,11-epoxide (Hainzl et al, 2001)[4]
Pharmacology
Mild inducers
After de Leon the following AED groups as mild inducers:
- clobazam
- eslicarbazepine
- rufinamide
- felbamate
- lamotrigine
- oxcarbazepine
- topiramate
- vigabatrin
- VPA
ATC code N03
References
- ↑ Severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy: Seizure reduction during adjunctive eslicarbazepine in two cases
- ↑ Eslicarbazepine acetate as adjunctive therapy in patients with uncontrolled partial-onset seizures: Results of a phase III, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial
- ↑ A review of the efficacy and safety of eslicarbazepine acetate in the management of partial-onset seizures
- ↑ https://www.dovepress.com/clinical-utility-of-eslicarbazepine-current-evidence-peer-reviewed-article-DDDT
- ↑ The effects of antiepileptic inducers in neuropsychopharmacology, a neglected issue. Part I: A summary of the current state for clinicians
- ↑ http://www.whocc.no/atc_ddd_index/?code=N03AF04