Study on the efficacy tolerability of topiramate in transferring monotherapy for the patients with partial seizures / 临床神经病学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To observe the possibility and efficacy tolerability of topiramate(TPM) in transferring monotherapy for the patients with partial seizures with or without secondary general seizure,as well as to find out the optimum way of the transferring.Methods After TPM add on therapy 64 patients with seizures reduced ≥50%, it reduced about 1/4 of AEDs or one drug each time according to every two weeks until gradually to stop fully and transferring monotherapy.Results 18 patients were successful with TPM monotherapy (28.13%), 35 patients were half success(54.69%), 11 cases for failure (17.19%). The less AEDs combined, the higher possibility of transferring monotherapy would be. The rate of success for cabamazepine seemed higher than valproate.Conclusion It was possible to transfer monotherapy by TPM. The rate of success was 28.13%. It was easier to reduce cabamazepine than valproate. In the transferring monotherapy it was better to reduce one after another, in principle the one of the little dose was reduced first,and then the hepatic enzyme inducing agents was reduced. Even if the transferring was half success,the kinds of concomitant AEDs could be reduced at least, it was in line with the policy of medicine application.