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@article{1137362,
author = {Kwan, Patrick and Trinka, Eugen and Paesschen, Wim Van and Rektor, Ivan and Johnson, Martin E. and Lu, Sarah},
article_location = {Hoboken, USA},
article_number = {1},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/epi.12391},
keywords = {Brivaracetam; Epilepsy; Seizures; Antiepileptic drug; Synaptic vesicle protein 2A},
language = {eng},
issn = {0013-9580},
journal = {Epilepsia},
title = {Adjunctive brivaracetam for uncontrolled focal and generalized epilepsies: Results of a phase III, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, flexible-dose trial},
url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/epi.12391/abstract},
volume = {55},
year = {2014}
}
TY - JOUR
ID - 1137362
AU - Kwan, Patrick - Trinka, Eugen - Paesschen, Wim Van - Rektor, Ivan - Johnson, Martin E. - Lu, Sarah
PY - 2014
TI - Adjunctive brivaracetam for uncontrolled focal and generalized epilepsies: Results of a phase III, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, flexible-dose trial
JF - Epilepsia
VL - 55
IS - 1
SP - 38-46
EP - 38-46
PB - WILEY-BLACKWELL
SN - 00139580
KW - Brivaracetam
KW - Epilepsy
KW - Seizures
KW - Antiepileptic drug
KW - Synaptic vesicle protein 2A
UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/epi.12391/abstract
L2 - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/epi.12391/abstract
N2 - PurposeTo evaluate the safety and tolerability of adjunctive brivaracetam (BRV), a high-affinity synaptic vesicle protein 2A (SV2A) ligand, in adults with uncontrolled epilepsy. Efficacy was also assessed in patients with focal seizures as a secondary objective, and explored by descriptive analysis in patients with generalized seizures. MethodsThis was a phase III, randomized, double-blind, placebo (PBO)-controlled flexible dose trial (N01254/NCT00504881) in adults (16-70years) with uncontrolled epilepsy (up to 20% could be patients with generalized epilepsy). After a prospective 4-week baseline, patients were randomized (3:1) to b.i.d. BRV or PBO, initiated at 20mg/day and increased, as needed, to 150mg/day during an 8-week dose-finding period. This was followed by an 8-week stable-dose maintenance period. The treatment period comprised the dose-finding period plus the maintenance period (16weeks). Key FindingsA total of 480 patients were randomized (BRV 359, PBO 121); of these, 431 had focal epilepsy and 49 had generalized epilepsy. Ninety percent BRV- and 91.7% PBO-treated patients completed the study. Similar proportions of patients (BRV 66.0%, PBO 65.3%) reported adverse events (AEs) during the treatment period. AEs led to treatment discontinuation in 6.1% and 5.0% of BRV- and PBO-treated patients, respectively. The incidence of AEs declined from the dose-finding (BRV 56.0%, PBO 55.4%) to the maintenance (BRV 36.8%, PBO 40.9%) period. The most frequent AEs during the treatment period were headache (BRV 14.2% vs. PBO 19.8%), somnolence (BRV 11.1% vs. PBO 4.1%), and dizziness (BRV 8.6% vs. PBO 5.8%). The incidence of psychiatric AEs was similar for BRV and PBO (BRV 12.3%, PBO 11.6%). In patients with focal seizures, the baseline-adjusted percent reduction in seizure frequency/week in the BRV group (n=323) over PBO (n=108) was 7.3% (p=0.125) during the treatment period. The median percent reduction in baseline-adjusted seizure frequency/week was 26.9% BRV versus 18.9% PBO (p=0.070), and the 50% responder rate was 30.3% BRV versus 16.7% PBO (p=0.006). In patients with generalized seizures only, the number of seizure days/week decreased from 1.42 at baseline to 0.63 during the treatment period in BRV-treated patients (n=36), and from 1.47 at baseline to 1.26 during the treatment period in PBO-treated patients (n=13). The median percent reduction from baseline in generalized seizure days/week was 42.6% versus 20.7%, and the 50% responder rate was 44.4% versus 15.4% in BRV-treated and PBO-treated patients, respectively. SignificanceAdjunctive BRV given at individualized tailored doses (20-150mg/day) was well tolerated in adults with uncontrolled epilepsy, and our results provided support for further evaluation of efficacy in reducing focal and generalized seizures.
ER -
KWAN, Patrick, Eugen TRINKA, Wim Van PAESSCHEN, Ivan REKTOR, Martin E. JOHNSON and Sarah LU. Adjunctive brivaracetam for uncontrolled focal and generalized epilepsies: Results of a phase III, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, flexible-dose trial. \textit{Epilepsia}. Hoboken, USA: WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2014, vol.~55, No~1, p.~38-46. ISSN~0013-9580. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/epi.12391.
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