Antiseizure medication withdrawal in seizure-free patients practice advisory update
Practice Advisory, December 2021
Read Published ArticleThis practice advisory update reviews the risks and benefits of discontinuing antiseizure medication use in seizure-free patients. According to the practice advisory, people with epilepsy who have been seizure-free (two years for adults and 1.5 to two years for children/adolescents) and stop use of antiseizure medicine may be at risk of having seizures happen again. Rarely, the medicine may no longer work if they start using it again.
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