The Risk Of Seizure-Related Hospitalization Among Older Adults On Levetiracetam Monotherapy: A Retrospective Comparative Cohort Study.
Huda AlzahraniHaya Mohammad AlmalagYazed Sulaiman H Al-RuthiaFawaz Al-HussainBander BalkhiLama AlmutairiReem AlgasemEdward B De VolManal Rashed AlmarzouqiAbdulaziz AlsemariPublished in: Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment (2019)
This study suggests that older adults on old generation AEDs such as phenytoin, carbamazepine, and valproic acid appear to have a lower risk of seizure-related hospitalization compared to their counterparts on levetiracetam.