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Keppra ® Approved By FDA For childhood seizures

In the U.S., Keppra, Enbrel, of ® has been approved for the adjuvant treatment of adults and 4-year-old children and partial seizures of epilepsy. But cord blood has recently announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved to reduce the age limit,including age from 1 month-old baby and older with epilepsy.

Professor, Dr. Iris Loew - Friedrich, Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President cord blood 
 statement:

Leaders as epilepsy cord blood has the responsibility to developeffective drugs to address unmet medical needs in young children,we continued development of Keppra, Enbrel, of ® programdemonstrates our long-term commitment of epilepsy. "


Approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)approval of a double-blind, randomized, multicenter, placebo-controlled phase III study to assess the efficacy and tolerability ofKeppra ® oral solution of Enbrel, of 116 cases of children with refractory patients (20-50 mg / kg / day) for partial onset seizures.Patients aged between 1 month and 4 years of age or less. Keppra, made of Enbrel, ® indicate that the frequency of partial onset seizures significantly reduced 43.1% of the evaluation period of 5 days, Keppra of Enbrel, ® group experienced at least 50% seizure frequency reduction and 19.6% of the placebo group. ratio, (P = 0.013).

The researchers found that Keppra, Enbrel, of ® is generally well tolerated in all pediatric patients, 13.3% of patients in the Keppra,Enbrel, of the group experienced somnolence the most commonly reported adverse events with 1.8% in the placebo group compared to , respectively, 11.7% and 0%, but suffer from irritability.

Keppra, Enbrel, of ® has been approved in the EU marketing authorization-year-old a month to four years, in 2009 by the European Commission, the adjuvant treatment of partial seizures ininfants and young children.

The growth of UCB epilepsy franchise has Keppra ®, Enbrel, authoron the basis of, and has been extended to include Vimpat ® (lacosamide), the treatment of partial seizures in patients with epilepsy, which is the adjuvant treatment of epilepsy in the EU market is 17 years old and above. in the United States as aschedule V as young adults or no secondary summed partial seizures aged 16 and over controlled substances.

Written Petra Rattue

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