Duncan J S
Institute of Neurology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London.
J R Soc Med. 1991 Mar;84(3):159-62. doi: 10.1177/014107689108400315.
Of patients who develop epilepsy 70-80% will become seizure free, the remaining 20% are the most difficult to treat satisfactorily. Eighty per cent of patients are best treated with a single drug. Stepwise treatment plans for the treatment of newly diagnosed patients and for the evaluation of patients with chronic epilepsy are suggested. There is a lack of consensus regarding the rate at which to taper antiepileptic drugs being discontinued in patients with active epilepsy. There are arguments for making drug changes rapidly; these arguments and strategies for managing the withdrawal of individual drugs are presented.
在患癫痫的患者中,70%-80%的人将不再发作,其余20%是最难得到满意治疗的。80%的患者用单一药物治疗效果最佳。文中建议了针对新诊断患者的逐步治疗方案以及慢性癫痫患者的评估方案。对于正在服用抗癫痫药物的活动性癫痫患者,在逐渐减停药物时应以何种速率进行,目前尚无共识。对于快速换药存在一些观点,本文介绍了这些观点以及管理 individual drugs撤药的策略。 (注:原文中“individual drugs”表述不太准确,可能有信息缺失,这里按原文翻译)