Rationale for mono- versus polytherapy with antiepileptic drugs for patients with epilepsy

The article considers the arguments that can provide a rationale for treatment policy in patients with epilepsy after failure of monotherapy with a first antiepileptic drug (AED). When choosing alternative monotherapy or early polytherapy with AEDs, one should consider a diversity of criteria: the m...

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Published in:	Неврология, нейропсихиатрия, психосоматика
Main Authors:	L. V. Lipatova, T. V. Kapustina
Format:	Article
Language:	Russian
Published:	IMA-PRESS LLC 2017-06-01
Subjects:	epilepsy antiepileptic drugs monotherapy polytherapy choice criteria efficiency safety tolerability
Online Access:	https://nnp.ima-press.net/nnp/article/view/733