Fenfluramine treatment in pediatric patients with Dravet syndrome reduces seizure burden and overall healthcare costs: A retrospective and observational real‐world study
Cathrine E. Gjerulfsen,
Marina Nikanorova,
Kern Olofsson
et al.
Abstract:ObjectivesDravet syndrome is a developmental and epileptic encephalopathy characterized by early onset epilepsy with multiple seizure types often intractable to treatment. Randomized clinical trials have demonstrated how treatment with fenfluramine significantly reduces seizure frequency in patients with Dravet syndrome. The study aims to (1) describe the efficacy and tolerability of fenfluramine in a Danish cohort of patients with Dravet syndrome; and (2) evaluate whether treatment with fenfluramine reduces e… Show more
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