Abstract
SUMMARY
This brief report covers an analysis of 7 years
outcome data from the Australian Register of
Antiepileptic Drugs in Pregnancy. In studying
the control of antiepileptic drug-treated epileptic
seizures during pregnancy, it was found that pregnancy
had little influence on antiepileptic drugtreated
epileptic seizure disorders. Seizures during
pregnancy occurred in 49.7 of 841 antiepileptic
drug (AED) treated pregnancies in women with
epilepsy. Epilepsies that were active in the year
before pregnancy tended to increase the risk of
intrapartum and postpartum seizures. The risk
of seizures during pregnancy was 50?70 less if
the prepregnancy year was seizure free, and decreased
relatively little more with longer periods
of prepregnancy seizure control. Once there had
been 1 year?s freedom from seizures there seemed
relatively little further advantage in deferring pregnancy
to avoid seizures returning while pregnant.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 172 - 176 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Epilepsia |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2008 |