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Efficacy of lamotrigine in refractory neonatal seizures

P A Barr1, V E Buettiker, J H Antony

  • 1Department of Neonatology, Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Westmead, NSW, Australia.

Pediatric Neurology
|March 19, 1999
PubMed

A newborn infant with seizures of unknown etiology that were refractory to treatment with phenobarbitone, phenytoin, midazolam, clonazepam, and vigabatrin is reported. The introduction of the new antiepileptic drug lamotrigine was followed by rapid and sustained control of the seizures.

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