We report on an 11-year healthy boy who presented refractory status epilepticus (SE), which was unresponsive to conventional antiepileptic drugs used in the algorithm of the treatment of SE. Based on evidence that verapamil has anticonvulsant activity in animal models and the fact that the boy had a supraventricular tachycardia (140-160 b/min), i.v. verapamil (0.034 mg/min) was administered on day 37, and after a 3.125 mg cumulative verapamil dose (1.5 hour after initiation of the infusion), the patient regained consciousness was able to breathe spontaneously and the electrical SE promptly disappeared. The apparent dramatic response to i.v. verapamil may be explained by its direct anticonvulsant action on the basis of the potential involvement of calcium channels in epileptic activity and that verapamil, a known Pgp inhibitor in the cerebrovascular endothelium in the epilepticus focus, acted by facilitating the brain penetration of the antiepileptic drugs that our patient was receiving simultaneously.
Calcium-channel blocker verapamil administration in prolonged and refractory status epilepticus / Iannetti, Paola; Spalice, Alberto; Parisi, Pasquale. - In: EPILEPSIA. - ISSN 0013-9580. - STAMPA. - 46:6(2005), pp. 967-969. [10.1111/j.1528-1167.2005.59204.x]
Calcium-channel blocker verapamil administration in prolonged and refractory status epilepticus
IANNETTI, Paola
;Alberto Spalice;PARISI, Pasquale
2005
Abstract
We report on an 11-year healthy boy who presented refractory status epilepticus (SE), which was unresponsive to conventional antiepileptic drugs used in the algorithm of the treatment of SE. Based on evidence that verapamil has anticonvulsant activity in animal models and the fact that the boy had a supraventricular tachycardia (140-160 b/min), i.v. verapamil (0.034 mg/min) was administered on day 37, and after a 3.125 mg cumulative verapamil dose (1.5 hour after initiation of the infusion), the patient regained consciousness was able to breathe spontaneously and the electrical SE promptly disappeared. The apparent dramatic response to i.v. verapamil may be explained by its direct anticonvulsant action on the basis of the potential involvement of calcium channels in epileptic activity and that verapamil, a known Pgp inhibitor in the cerebrovascular endothelium in the epilepticus focus, acted by facilitating the brain penetration of the antiepileptic drugs that our patient was receiving simultaneously.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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