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Int J Clin Pharmacol Ther
January 2025
Objective: Valproic acid, frequently prescribed for neurological and psychiatric disorders, can cause hyperammonemia (HA). This retrospective study aimed to investigate the association among the basic characteristics, comorbidities, co-medications, and risk of HA in patients receiving valproic acid.
Materials And Methods: We compared groups with and without HA using data collected from the medical records of adults undergoing valproic acid monitoring between January 1, 2019, and December 31, 2021.
Toxicol Mech Methods
January 2025
Department of Pharmacology, SVKM's NMIMS School of Pharmacy and Technology Management, Babulde, Shirpur, 425405 Maharashtra, India.
Adverse drug reactions (ADR) remain a challenge in modern healthcare, particularly given the increasing complexity of therapeutics. WHO's definition of an adverse drug reaction as a response to a drug that is noxious and unintended and occurs at doses normally used in man for the prophylaxis, diagnosis or therapy of disease, or for modification of physiological function. This definition underscores the importance of monitoring and mitigating unintended drug effects, particularly for widely used medications like valproic acid (VPA).
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January 2025
Department of Pharmacoepidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine and Public Health, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
The association between prolonged febrile seizure and long-term neurological sequelae in otherwise healthy children remains unclear. We conducted a retrospective cohort study using a Japanese nationwide medical database. In the cohort of 38,465 children with febrile seizures, 610 and 31,157 were classified into the prolonged and non-prolonged groups, respectively.
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January 2025
Department of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
Aim: To identify neonatal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features that predict the likelihood of children with congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) developing epilepsy, together with clinical features and a validated MRI scoring system.
Method: This was a retrospective descriptive cohort study of infants with cCMV referred to a paediatric infectious disease centre between April 2012 and March 2022, and followed up for at least 2 years. MRI was performed before 4 months of age and assessed by two paediatric neuroradiologists.
Epilepsia
January 2025
IRCCS Institute of Neurological Sciences of Bologna, Full Member of the European Reference Network EpiCARE, Bologna, Italy.
Objective: This study aimed to identify prescribing behaviors in women of childbearing potential (WOCP) with epilepsy already taking valproate (VPA), and to investigate the relationship between VPA maintenance, substitution, reduction, or withdrawal as part of polytherapy, and seizure worsening or relapse.
Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the prescription behaviors and seizure outcomes in WOCP (16-50 years of age) with epilepsy, referred to eight Italian epilepsy centers, who were taking VPA for at least 1 year between 2014 and 2019.
Results: Among 750 women (~12% of all WOCP), 528 (70.
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