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  • noun A medication for the adjunctive treatment of partial-onset seizures and diabetic neuropathic pain.

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Examples

  • UCB also initiated a European phase III trial of Vimpat lacosamide during the fourth quarter.

    UCB's Progress On-Track - Yahoo! Finance 2011

  • The key ingredient - lacosamide - has been found to be distributed unevenly in some batches of the syrup which could lead to patients receiving either too much or too little of the medicine.

    WalesOnline - Home 2011

  • The non-inferiority design of the trial is meant to show a similar benefit-risk balance between lacosamide and carbamazepine.

    UCB's Progress On-Track - Yahoo! Finance 2011

  • Physician attributes sudden death in young athletes to inherited heart diseases Study confirms efficacy and tolerability of lacosamide for uncontrolled POS >

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

  • The primary objective of the trial was to evaluate the efficacy of lacosamide 400 and 600 mg/day as adjunctive treatment for POS; the secondary objective was to further assess the safety, potential dose-response relationships, and steady-state plasma concentrations of lacosamide and concomitant antiepileptic drugs (AEDs).

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

  • Results of the first trial indicated that study participants taking 400 and 600 mg/day of lacosamide experienced significantly larger reductions in seizure frequency and significantly greater responder rates compared with placebo.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

  • Adjunctive treatment with lacosamide 400 and 600 mg/day was found to be effective in reducing the frequency of POS (with or without secondary generalization) in patients with uncontrolled seizures while taking one to three concomitant AEDs.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

  • A recent multi-center study has confirmed earlier study results that 400 mg/day of lacosamide provides a good balance of efficacy and tolerability for patients with uncontrolled partial-onset seizures (POS), and doses of 600mg/day may provide additional benefit for some patients.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

  • Study confirms efficacy and tolerability of lacosamide for uncontrolled POS

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

  • The efficacy and safety of adjunctive lacosamide for POS was established in three multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

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