Monotherapy With Levetiracetam in Patients Suffering From Epilepsy.

An open-label follow-up trial assessing the long term safety of levetiracetam as per adverse events reporting...

Date First Received: September 6, 2005

Last Updated: March 7, 2008

Verified by: UCB, March 2008

Clinical Trial Phase: Phase 3 | Start Date: August 2005

Overall Status: Completed

Estimated Enrollment: 70

Brief Summary

Official Title: “A Multicenter, Open-Label, Follow-up Trial Evaluating the Long-Term Safety of Levetiracetam Individualized Dose From 1000 to 3000 mg/Day (Oral Tablets of 500 mg b.i.d.), Used as Monotherapy in Subjects (≥ 16 Years) Suffering From Epilepsy and Coming From the N01061 or the N01093 Trials.”

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An open-label follow-up trial assessing the long term safety of levetiracetam as per adverse events reporting.

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Treatment, Non-Randomized, Open Label, Uncontrolled, Single Group Assignment

Study Primary Completion Date: May 2007

Intervention(s) in this Clinical Trial

  • Drug: LEVETIRACETAM

Outcome Measures for this Clinical Trial

Primary Measures

  • Around 4 years of Safety assessment of levetiracetam via Adverse Events reporting,

Criteria for Participation in this Clinical Trial

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Subjects with a confirmed diagnosis of epilepsy.
  • Subjects having experienced in the past unprovoked partial seizures (IA, IB, IC with clear focal origin),or generalized tonic-clonic seizures (without clear focal origin), that are classifiable according to the International Classification of Epileptic
  • Seizures
  • Subjects having participated in the previous double-blind monotherapy trial (N01061 or N01093).
  • Male/female subjects (≥ 16 years).

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Need for an additional AED.

Gender Eligibility for this Clinical Trial: Both

Minimum Age for this Clinical Trial: 16 Years

Maximum Age for this Clinical Trial: N/A

Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted for this Clinical Trial?: No

Clinical Trial Sponsor Information

Lead Sponsor: UCB

Overall Clinical Trial Officials and Contacts

F Tonner, MD Study Director UCB  

Additional Information

Information obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov on July 02, 2009

Link to the current ClinicalTrials.gov record. http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00150813

Study ID Number: N01127

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00150813

Health Authority: Czech Republic: State Institute for Drug Control

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