Monotherapy With Levetiracetam or Carbamazepine in Patients Suffering From Epilepsy.

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A double-blind follow-up trial assessing the long term safety of Levetiracetam as per adverse events reporting, physical and neurological examination and vital...

Brief Summary

Official Title: “A Multicenter, Double-blind, Follow-up Trial Evaluating the Long-term Safety of Levetiracetam (1000 to 3000 mg/Day Oral b.i.d.) and Carbamazepine (400 to 1200 mg/Day Oral b.i.d.), Used as Monotherapy in Subjects (≥ 16 Years) Coming From the N01061 Trial.”

A double-blind follow-up trial assessing the long term safety of Levetiracetam as per adverse events reporting, physical and neurological examination and vital signs

  • Study Type: Interventional
  • Study Design: Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double-Blind
  • Study Primary Completion Date: November 2005

Intervention(s) in this Clinical Trial

  • Drug: LEVETIRACETAM

Outcome Measures for this Clinical Trial

Primary Measures

  • Around 2 years of Safety assessment of levetiracetam via Adverse Events reporting, physical and neurological examination and vital signs

Criteria for Participation in this Clinical Trial

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Subjects with a confirmed diagnosis of epilepsy.
  • Subjects having experienced in the past unprovoked partial seizures (IA, IB, IC with clear focal origin), or generalized tonic-clonic seizures (without clear focal origin), that are classifiable according to the International Classification of Epileptic Seizures
  • Subjects coming from the N01061 monotherapy trial and for whom double-blind continuation of investigational product is beneficial.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Need for an additional AED.

Gender Eligibility for this Clinical Trial: Both

Minimum Age for this Clinical Trial: 16 Years

Maximum Age for this Clinical Trial: N/A

Clinical Trial Investigator Information

Lead Investigator: UCB, Inc. Industry

Overall Clinical Trial Officials and Contacts

UCB Clinical Trial Call Center Study Director UCB, Inc.  

Related Publications

Citations Reporting Results

M. J. Brodie, E. Perucca, P. Ryvlin, E. Ben-Menachem, H.-J Meencke for the Levetiracetam Monotherapy Study Group Comparison of levetiracetam and controlled-release carbamazepine in newly diagnosed epilepsy Neurology, Feb 2007; 68: 402 - 408.

Additional Information

Information obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov on February 12, 2012

Link to the current ClinicalTrials.gov record. http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00150787

Study ID Number: N01093

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00150787

Health Authority: Belgium: Directorate general for the protection of Public health: Medicines

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