Effectiveness and tolerability of brivaracetam in patients with epilepsy stratified by comorbidities and etiology in the real world: 12-month subgroup data from the international EXPERIENCE pooled analysis.

Brivaracetam Comorbidity Effectiveness Etiology Real world Tolerability

Journal

Journal of neurology
ISSN: 1432-1459
Titre abrégé: J Neurol
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 0423161

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
04 Mar 2024
Historique:
received: 11 12 2023
accepted: 10 02 2024
revised: 31 01 2024
medline: 4 3 2024
pubmed: 4 3 2024
entrez: 4 3 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

To assess the effectiveness and tolerability of brivaracetam (BRV) in adults with epilepsy by specific comorbidities and epilepsy etiologies. EXPERIENCE/EPD332 was a pooled analysis of individual patient records from several non-interventional studies of patients with epilepsy initiating BRV in clinical practice. Outcomes included ≥ 50% reduction from baseline in seizure frequency, seizure freedom (no seizures within prior 3 months), continuous seizure freedom (no seizures since baseline), BRV discontinuation, and treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs) at 3, 6, and 12 months. Analyses were performed for all adult patients (≥ 16 years of age) and stratified by comorbidity and by etiology at baseline (patients with cognitive/learning disability [CLD], psychiatric comorbidity, post-stroke epilepsy, brain tumor-related epilepsy [BTRE], and traumatic brain injury-related epilepsy [TBIE]). At 12 months, ≥ 50% seizure reduction was achieved in 35.6% (n = 264), 38.7% (n = 310), 41.7% (n = 24), 34.1% (n = 41), and 50.0% (n = 28) of patients with CLD, psychiatric comorbidity, post-stroke epilepsy, BTRE, and TBIE, respectively; and continuous seizure freedom was achieved in 5.7% (n = 318), 13.7% (n = 424), 29.4% (n = 34), 11.4% (n = 44), and 13.8% (n = 29), respectively. During the study follow-up, in patients with CLD, psychiatric comorbidity, post-stroke epilepsy, BTRE, and TBIE, 37.1% (n = 403), 30.7% (n = 605), 33.3% (n = 51), 39.7% (n = 68), and 27.1% (n = 49) of patients discontinued BRV, respectively; and TEAEs since prior visit at 12 months were reported in 11.3% (n = 283), 10.0% (n = 410), 16.7% (n = 36), 12.5% (n = 48), and 3.0% (n = 33), respectively. BRV as prescribed in the real world is effective and well tolerated among patients with CLD, psychiatric comorbidity, post-stroke epilepsy, BTRE, and TBIE.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38436680
doi: 10.1007/s00415-024-12253-z
pii: 10.1007/s00415-024-12253-z
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

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Informations de copyright

© 2024. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Jerzy P Szaflarski (JP)

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Heersink School of Medicine Department of Neurology and UAB Epilepsy Center, Birmingham, AL, USA. jszaflarski@uabmc.edu.

Hervé Besson (H)

UCB Pharma, Breda, Netherlands.

Wendyl D'Souza (W)

Department of Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Edward Faught (E)

Emory Epilepsy Center, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Pavel Klein (P)

Mid-Atlantic Epilepsy and Sleep Center, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Markus Reuber (M)

The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.

Felix Rosenow (F)

Epilepsy Center Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Department of Neurology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
LOEWE Center for Personalized Translational Epilepsy Research (CePTER), Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.

Javier Salas-Puig (J)

Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain.

Victor Soto Insuga (V)

Pediatric Neurology, Hospital Universitario Infantil Niño Jesús, Madrid, Spain.

Bernhard J Steinhoff (BJ)

Kork Epilepsy Center, Kehl-Kork and Medical Faculty, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

Adam Strzelczyk (A)

Epilepsy Center Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Department of Neurology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
LOEWE Center for Personalized Translational Epilepsy Research (CePTER), Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.

Dimitrios Bourikas (D)

UCB Pharma, Alimos, Greece.

Tony Daniels (T)

UCB Pharma, Morrisville, NC, USA.

Florin Floricel (F)

UCB Pharma, Monheim am Rhein, Germany.

David Friesen (D)

UCB Pharma, Slough, England, UK.

Cédric Laloyaux (C)

UCB Pharma, Brussels, Belgium.

Vicente Villanueva (V)

Refractory Epilepsy Unit, Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe, EpiCARE member, Valencia, Spain.

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