Clinical Efficacy and Safety of Perampanel Monotherapy in the Treatment of Children With Focal Epilepsy

Clinical Efficacy and Safety of Perampanel Monotherapy in the Treatment of Children With Focal Epilepsy

This project is a multicenter prospective study. By retrieving outpatient medical records and collecting clinical data of epilepsy patients, the efficacy and safety of single-drug perampanel in patients with focal epilepsy were analyzed.

This project is a multicenter prospective study. The selected case population was given the oral antiepileptic drug perampanel for 12 months, and the seizure control (complete control, markedly effective, effective, ineffective, worsening), EEG changes (normal, Effective, ineffective), and adverse reactions were analyzed, so as to provide a basis for perampanel monotherapy in children with focal epilepsy.

Inclusion Criteria:

(1) Clinical diagnosis of focal epilepsy; (2) Take anti-epileptic drugs as prescribed by your doctor; (3) Epilepsy patients diagnosed with focal epilepsy with or without generalized seizures, and Monitoring for ≥12 months; (4) Newly diagnosed epilepsy patients, or only taking 1-2 other AEDs, without regular antiepileptic treatment, the efficacy is not good, after using perampanel, gradually stop AEDs for 8 weeks. For perampanel monotherapy; (5) the number of seizures ≥ 1 in the first 3 months of enrollment.

Exclusion Criteria:

(1) syncope (2) Pseudo-seizure(3)transient ischemic attack