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  • Title: Clinical experience with sodium valproate in children.
    Author: Leary PM, Morris S.
    Journal: S Afr Med J; 1980 May 24; 57(21):866-7. PubMed ID: 6773153.
    Abstract:
    Good control was achieved with sodium valproate (Epilim) in 44 (71%) of a sample of 62 children with severe recurrent epileptic seizures. The medication was most effective in the control of petit mal; good results, however, were also achieved in some patients with previously poorly controlled grand mal epilepsy and psychomotor and myoclonic seizures. Twenty children required no other anti-convulsant and 28 required only one other. Side-effects were infrequent and mild. Only the high cost of sodium valproate in South Africa precludes its more general use in childhood epilepsy.
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