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Two-year follow-up with eslicarbazepine acetate: a consecutive, retrospective, observational study

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Two-year follow-up with eslicarbazepine acetate: a consecutive, retrospective, observational study
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Article in International Scientific Journal
Year
2014
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Fernando D Correia
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Title: Epilepsy ResearchImported from Authenticus Search for Journal Publications
Vol. 108
Pages: 1399-1405
ISSN: 0920-1211
Publisher: Elsevier
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FOS: Medical and Health sciences > Clinical medicine
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Authenticus ID: P-009-VYN
Abstract (EN): Purpose: Eslicarbazepine acetate (ESL) is a new generation voltage-gated sodium channel blocker. It has completed one phase II clinical trial and three phase III clinical trials, two of which with 1-year open label extensions. ESL was approved in 2009 by the European Medicines Agency as adjunctive therapy in adults with partial-onset seizures with or without secondary generalization. It is marketed in Portugal since April 1st 2010. Despite good safety and efficacy shown in clinical trials, little is known about its effectiveness in a clinical day-to-day setting. Our purpose was to assess the post-marketing experience with ESL in our centre, in terms of safety and efficacy profile, and ascertain whether the results were comparable to the published data. Methods: This is a retrospective, consecutive, single-centre 2-year observational study. All the patients who initiated treatment with ESL between April 1st 2010 and October 31st 2011 at Hospital de Santo Antonio were consecutively included. Data was collected on demographics, clinical features, adverse events and treatment response, using a standardized data form. Follow-up data was considered until October 31st 2013. Efficacy analysis was performed using an "intention to treat" approach. Key findings: We included 152 patients, 74 (48.7%) female. Mean age was 38.5 years-old (sd = 14.2). Eight patients were less than 18 years old. Mean epilepsy duration was 26.8 (sd = 13.1) years and mean seizure frequency in the previous 3 months was 19.7 seizures per month. At baseline, about 57.9% of all patients were taking <= 2 concomitant AEDs. The total adverse rate was 42.1% (64/152), with 50.0% (32/64) leading to treatment discontinuation. The most frequent adverse events were dizziness and somnolence/slowness. Adverse events were higher in regimens including carbamazepine, and mean age was higher in the patients reporting adverse events. Retention rates as estimated by Kaplan-Meyer curves were 82.9%, 71.3%, 65.1% and 62.8%, respectively, at 6, 12, 18 and 24 months. Retention time was not influenced by gender, diagnosis, age or epilepsy duration. Fifty-six patients (36.8%) dropped out of treatment, 32 (57.1%) due to adverse events, 19 (33.9%) due to lack of efficacy and 5 (8.9%) for other reasons. At 6,12,18 and 24 months, the responder rates were 25.7%, 25.7%, 19.0% and 17.1%, respectively and favourable global clinical impression rates were 27.7%, 19.7%, 17.8% and 16.5%. Significance: This is the first study reporting follow-up data for up to 2 years in patients treated with ESL in the setting of daily clinical practice. The retention rates in our study are sustained throughout the 2 years of follow-up, and at 6 and 12 months are globally comparable to those of phase III trials and open-label extensions. The adverse event rate is also comparable to previous studies, and no new safety issues attributable to ESL were found. Responder rates were lower than those of previous studies, even though efficacy results must be interpreted with caution given the different study design. Thus, ESL appears to be a clinically useful add-on AED, with good safety profile and high retention rates, even in a very refractory group of patients like the presented cohort.
Language: English
Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific
Contact: fanacorreia@gmail.com
No. of pages: 7
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