Treatments involving eslicarbazepine acetate or eslicarbazepine
AssigneeBail-Portela & Ca, S.A.
InventorPatricio Manuel Vieira Araujo Soares Da Silva
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Abstract
The invention provides a drug selected from eslicarbazepine acetate and eslicarbazepine, for use in treating or preventing a disorder selected from epilepsy, affective disorders, schizoaffective disorders, bipolar disorders, neuropathic pain and neuropathic pain related disorders, attention disorders, anxiety disorders, sensorimotor disorders, vestibular disorders, and fibromyalgia, in a patient suffering from or susceptible to absence seizures.
Claims19
A method of treating partial-onset seizures in a patient who is suffering from or susceptible to absence seizures, which method comprises:
- administering to said patient a safe and effective amount of eslicarbazepine acetate.
A method of treating partial-onset seizures in a patient who is suffering from or susceptible to absence seizures, which method comprises:
- administering to said patient a safe and effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition, which comprises a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and a safe and effective amount of eslicarbazepine acetate as an active ingredient.
A method of treating partial onset seizures, which method comprises:
- (a) selecting a patient who is suffering from or susceptible to absence seizures;
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- (b) administering to said patient a safe and effective amount of eslicarbazepine acetate, or a pharmaceutical composition, which comprises a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and a safe and effective amount of eslicarbazepine acetate as an active ingredient.
A method of reducing the incidence of absence seizures in a patient, which method comprises administering to said patient a safe and effective amount of eslicarbazepine acetate, or a pharmaceutical composition, which comprises a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and a safe and effective amount of eslicarbazepine acetate as an active ingredient.
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