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- Published on: 13 April 2016
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- Published on: 13 April 2016Intravenous levetiracetam for benzodiazepine refractory status epilepticusShow More
Dear Editor, Dear Dr. Sethi,
Thank you very much for sending the eLetter regarding our retrospective case "benzodiazepine refractory status epilepticus". We agree, that standard protocols should be used as the rule as long as levetiracetam is not approved for the treatment of status epilepticus (SE) and as long as there is no prospective randomized study demonstrating the efficacy of levetiracetam in SE. In the pa...
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None declared. - Published on: 13 April 2016Intravenous levetiracetam for benzodiazepine refractory status epilepticusShow More
Dear Editor
We read with interest the study by Knake et al. in which they investigated the efficacy and safety of intravenous levetiracetam (ivLEV) for the treatment of status epilepticus 1. Off label usage of LEV is exceedingly common and we would like to commend the authors for providing some data about the efficacy of iv LEV in the treatment of benzodiazepine refractory status epilepticus. All the patients in the...
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