Email this article RUFINAMIDE (INOVELON) IN THE TREATMENT OF LENNOX–GASTAUT SYNDROME (A REVIEW OF LITERATURE AND CLINICAL CASE)
- Authors: Mukhin K.Y.1, Pylaeva O.A.1
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Affiliations:
- Svt. Luka’s Institute of Child Neurology and Epilepsy
- Issue: Vol 10, No 4 (2015)
- Pages: 47-54
- Section: CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS
- Published: 16.01.2016
- URL: https://rjdn.abvpress.ru/jour/article/view/120
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17650/2073-8803-2015-10-4-47-54
- ID: 120
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Abstract
Lennox–Gastaut syndrome (LGS) is childhood-onset epileptic encephalopathy manifested by frequent polymorphic seizures, including tonic axial, obvious cognitive impairments, characteristic ECG changes, and therapeutic resistance. Due to the concurrence of several types of seizures in the clinical presentation of the disease and their resistance to drug therapy, great hopes are pinned on the design of novel antiepileptic drugs with fundamentally other mechanisms of action and aimed specially at treating this severe type of epilepsy. The authors review the foreign literature on the new antiepileptic drug rufinamide (Inovelon) registered in Russia in January 2015 to directly treat LGS as adjunctive treatment in children 4 years and older and adults. Multiple trials have demonstrated that rufinamide has efficacy and good tolerability in treating LGS.
The authors describe an observed case of the efficacy of rufinamide in a 17-year-old male patient with LGS. Despite the drug resistance of epilepsy and no response to multiple antiepileptic drugs used alone and in different combinations, the incorporation of rufinamide into a treatment regimen had a pronounced therapeutic effect: the frequency of convulsive seizures decreased by 70 %. At the time of writing this paper, the patient has been receiving rufinamide for more 5 months. He has been tolerating the therapy well.
About the authors
K. Yu. Mukhin
Svt. Luka’s Institute of Child Neurology and Epilepsy
Author for correspondence.
Email: center@epileptologist.ru
6 Svetlaya St., Puchkovo Village, Pervomayskoe Settlement, Moscow, 143396 Russian Federation
O. A. Pylaeva
Svt. Luka’s Institute of Child Neurology and Epilepsy
Email: fake@neicon.ru
6 Svetlaya St., Puchkovo Village, Pervomayskoe Settlement, Moscow, 143396 Russian Federation
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