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This article provides an overview of canine epilepsy, including diagnosis, treatment for routine and refractory epilepsy, commonly used anticonvulsant drugs and their recommended starting doses, and a brief introduction to new medications and alternative therapies.
The canine epilepsy patient requires a methodical, clinical reasoning approach (Figure1) to guide the clinician to the most likely underlying disease process and, therefore, to develop an appropriate and adequate treatment plan to reduce the brain’s vulnerability to seizure events.
Anti-epileptic treatment should be started in dogs with idiopathic epilepsy that have: • more than one generalised seizure per month; • status epilepticus or severe cluster seizures;
28 sie 2015 · In this consensus proposal, an overview is given on the aim of AED treatment, when to start long-term treatment in canine epilepsy and which veterinary AEDs are currently in use for dogs.
Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Canine Epilepsy. Seizure identification and diagnosis (not included in this paper) . Decision making treatment strategies . When Should Treatment Be Started? Decision to treat is a reflection of the Guidelines for people to start treatment goals: Diagnosis of current or previous defined.
3 lis 2023 · When CS occur, a short‐term treatment plan can be initiated during or immediately after the first seizure (if the animal is known to exhibit CS when seizures occur) or, more commonly, during or after the second seizure; the aim is to terminate seizures and prevent further events in the short‐term.
Antiepiletic drug therapy. Phenobarbital is licensed as a monotherapy for seizures in dogs and should be used as a first-line drug according to the cascade. The initial dosage is 2mg/kg to 3mg/kg twice daily, and serum concentrations reach steady state within 10 to 14 days (Podell, 2004).
