Epileptic Disorders
MENUQuinidine therapy and therapeutic drug monitoring in four patients with KCNT1 mutations Volume 21, numéro 1, February 2019
Auteurs
Aims
1 National Epilepsy Center, NHO Shizuoka Institute of Epilepsy and Neurological Disorders, Shizuoka
2 Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital, Department of Child Neurology, Hamamatsu
3 Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Human Genetics, Yokohama
4 Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Hamamatsu,
5 Shizuoka Children's Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Shizuoka
6 Department of Pediatrics School of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan
* Correspondence: Shinsaku Yoshitomi
National Epilepsy Center,
NHO Shizuoka Institute of Epilepsy and Neurological Disorder,
886 Urushiyama, Aoi-ku,
Shizuoka 420-8688, Japan
- Mots-clés : KCNT1, EIMFS, quinidine, serum concentration, arrhythmia, migrating focal seizures
- DOI : 10.1684/epd.2019.1026
- Page(s) : 48-54
- Année de parution : 2019
Several recent studies have reported potassium sodium-activated channel subfamily T member 1 (KCNT1) mutations in epilepsy patients on quinidine therapy. The efficacy and safety of quinidine for epilepsy treatment, however, remains controversial.