Epilepsy
Conditions
Keywords
Levetiracetam, Keppra
Brief summary
Patients in community-based practices correspond to the 25% of patients who need a first add-on drug when not controlled by their standard monotherapy drug. This was a therapeutic use trial in which the population corresponds more closely to that seen in daily clinical practice.
Interventions
Sponsors
Study design
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
* partial onset seizures with or without secondary generalisation with epilepsy.
Exclusion criteria
* hypersensitivity to levetiracetam or other pyrrolidone derivatives or to any of the excipients.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Safety and the tolerability of Keppra in a broad population of patients. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Obtain further information about optimal daily dose. | — |