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Efficacy and Tolerability of Intravenous Levetiracetam in Children

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Neurology, January 2013
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Title
Efficacy and Tolerability of Intravenous Levetiracetam in Children
Published in
Frontiers in Neurology, January 2013
DOI 10.3389/fneur.2013.00120
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Authors

Jose Aceves, Owais Khan, Diana Mungall, Ekokobe Fonkem, Chanin Wright, Andrea Wenner, Batool Kirmani

Abstract

Intractable epilepsy in children poses a serious medical challenge. Acute repetitive seizures and status epilepticus leads to frequent emergency room visits and hospital admissions. Delay of treatment may lead to resistance to the first-line anticonvulsant therapies. It has been shown that these children continue to remain intractable even after acute seizure management with approved Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agents. Intravenous levetiracetam, a second-generation anticonvulsant was approved by the FDA in 2006 in patients 16 years and older as an alternative when oral treatment is not an option. Data have been published showing that intravenous levetiracetam is safe and efficacious, and can be used in an acute inpatient setting. This current review will discuss the recent data about the safety and tolerability of intravenous levetiracetam in children and neonates, and emphasize the need for a larger prospective multicenter trial to prove the efficacy of this agent in acute seizure management.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 26 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Postgraduate 6 23%
Researcher 5 19%
Student > Master 4 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 4%
Student > Bachelor 1 4%
Other 4 15%
Unknown 5 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 15 58%
Neuroscience 4 15%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 8%
Unknown 5 19%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 September 2013.
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#18,136,219
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Outputs from Frontiers in Neurology
#7,280
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#213,085
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#82
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