Systematic review of antiepileptic drugs’ safety and effectiveness in feline epilepsy

Charalambous, M; Pakozdy, A; Bhatti, S F M; Volk, H A

Abstract

Understanding the efficacy and safety profile of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) in feline epilepsy is a crucial consideration for managing this important brain disease. However, there is a lack of information about the treatment of feline epilepsy and therefore a systematic review was constructed to assess current evidence for the AEDs’ efficacy and tolerability in cats. The methods and materials of our former systematic reviews in canine epilepsy were mostly mirrored for the current systematic review in cats. Databases of PubMed, CAB Direct and Google scholar were searched to detect peer-reviewed studies reporting efficacy and/or adverse effects of AEDs in cats. The studies were assessed with regards to their quality of evidence, i.e. study design, study population, diagnostic criteria and overall risk of bias and the outcome measures reported, i.e. prevalence and 95% confidence interval of the successful and affected population in each study and in total.

Citation

Charalambous, M., Pakozdy, A., Bhatti, S. F. M., & Volk, H. A. (2018). Systematic review of antiepileptic drugs’ safety and effectiveness in feline epilepsy. BMC Veterinary Research, 14(64), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-018-1386-3

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Feb 21, 2018
• Publication Date: Mar 2, 2018
• Deposit Date: Mar 10, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 21, 2020
• Journal: BMC Veterinary Research
• Publisher: BioMed Central
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 64
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-018-1386-3
• Public URL: https://rvc-repository.worktribe.com/output/1388291