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ReviewTherapeutic advances in neurological disorders2015

A review of the efficacy and safety of extended-release topiramate in the adjunctive treatment for refractory partial-onset seizures.

Steve S Chung

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Review in Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Topiramate add-on therapy for drug-resistant focal epilepsy.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019
    Review
  3. Article
  4. Comprehensive review of visual defects reported with topiramate.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2017
    Review
  5. Practice Update: Review of Anticonvulsant Therapy.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2016
    Review
  6. Review
  7. Observational
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Steve S ChungDepartment of Neurology, Barrow Neurological Institute, Banner University Medical Center 500 West Thomas Road Suite 300, Phoenix, AZ 85013, USA.
Banner - University Medical Center Tucson · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Topiramate has been widely utilized worldwide as an effective medication against partial- and generalized-onset seizures. Extended-release topiramate was developed to provide patients with the convenience of once-daily dosing and potentially improved tolerability by reducing serum concentration fluctuation. USL255 is a once-daily, extended-release formulation of topiramate, which was recently approved in the USA. Compared with immediate-release topiramate taken twice daily, once-daily USL255 provides equivalent topiramate exposure with a 26% reduction in plasma fluctuations. A multinational, phase III, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial in patients with refractory partial-onset seizures demonstrated that USL255 (200 mg/day) significantly improved seizure control and was well tolerated with low overall neuropsychiatric and neurocognitive adverse events.

Indexed as

epilepsyextended releasepartial seizuresqudexy XRtopiramatetrokendi XR

Identifiers

PMID25941540
PMCPMC4409552
OpenAlexW1982794801

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