Drug resistance in epilepsy: clinical impact, potential mechanisms, and new innovative treatment options

W Löscher, H Potschka, SM Sisodiya, A Vezzani - Pharmacological reviews, 2020 - ASPET
Epilepsy is a chronic neurologic disorder that affects over 70 million people worldwide.
Despite the availability of over 20 antiseizure drugs (ASDs) for symptomatic treatment of …

Drug-resistant epilepsy: multiple hypotheses, few answers

F Tang, AMS Hartz, B Bauer - Frontiers in neurology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder that affects over 70 million people worldwide.
Despite the recent introduction of new antiseizure drugs (ASDs), about one-third of patients …

Эпилепсия у детей и взрослых женщин и мужчин

ВА Карлов - 2019 - elibrary.ru
В руководстве представлены результаты 60-летней работы автора в области детской
и взрослой неврологии и эпилептологии. Впервые эпилептология представлена в …

Drug resistance in epilepsy

E Perucca, P Perucca, HS White, EC Wirrell - The Lancet Neurology, 2023 - thelancet.com
Drug resistance is estimated to affect about a third of individuals with epilepsy, but its
prevalence differs in relation to the epilepsy syndrome, the cause of epilepsy, and other …

Drug-resistant epilepsy

P Kwan, SC Schachter, MJ Brodie - New England Journal of …, 2011 - Mass Medical Soc
Nearly a quarter of patients with seizures have drug-resistant epilepsy. This review
examines how this diagnosis should be established and how to recognize …

Managing drug-resistant epilepsy: challenges and solutions

L Dalic, MJ Cook - Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Despite the development of new antiepileptic drugs (AEDs),~ 20%–30% of people with
epilepsy remain refractory to treatment and are said to have drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) …

Pharmacoresistance–Epidemiology, mechanisms, and impact on epilepsy treatment

M Janmohamed, MJ Brodie, P Kwan - Neuropharmacology, 2020 - Elsevier
Understanding the natural history of and factors associated with pharmacoresistant epilepsy
provides the foundation for formulating mechanistic hypotheses that can be evaluated to …

Adult epilepsy

JS Duncan, JW Sander, SM Sisodiya, MC Walker - The Lancet, 2006 - thelancet.com
The epilepsies are one of the most common serious brain disorders, can occur at all ages,
and have many possible presentations and causes. Although incidence in childhood has …

Blood-brain barrier active efflux transporters: ATP-binding cassette gene family

W Löscher, H Potschka - NeuroRx, 2005 - Elsevier
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) contributes to brain homeostasis by protecting the brain from
potentially harmful endogenous and exogenous substances. BBB active drug efflux …

Drug resistance in brain diseases and the role of drug efflux transporters

W Löscher, H Potschka - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2005 - nature.com
Resistance to drug treatment is an important hurdle in the therapy of many brain disorders,
including brain cancer, epilepsy, schizophrenia, depression and infection of the brain with …