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J L Noebels. 1996. Targeting epilepsy genes.. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0896-6273(00)80042-2
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BACKGROUND: Everolimus, a mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitor, is increasingly used in tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC)-associated epilepsy; however, long-term real-world outcomes and factors associated with favorable response remain unclear. This study aimed to evaluate the long-term seizure outcomes of adjunctive everolimus and explore clinical factors associated with treatment response. METHODS: We retrospectively recruited 21 patients with active TSC-associated epilepsy receiving adjunctive everolimus and assessed seizure outcomes during follow-up. Clinical characteristics were compared between responders and non-responders at 1 year after treatment initiation. RESULTS: Over a median treatment duration of 72 months, responder rates ranged from 53.8% to 64.7%, and seizure-free rates ranged from 33.3% to 41.2%. Responders had fewer involved organ systems at baseline (median 3 vs. 4, p = 0.020) and lower anti-seizure medication burden (median 2 vs. 4, p = 0.045). Younger age at treatment initiation showed a trend toward improved response. CONCLUSION: Adjunctive everolimus was associated with sustained long-term seizure reduction in this real-world cohort. In exploratory analyses, fewer involved organ systems and fewer baseline ASMs were associated with favorable treatment response. These findings require validation in larger prospective cohorts.
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Epilepsies, like other common diseases, have complex inheritance, and molecular genetic studies in such conditions are difficult. There has been recent success in identifying the molecular basis of certain epilepsies, particularly in those syndromes with autosomal dominant inheritance. All four genes discovered to date for idiopathic epilepsies code for ion channel subunits, either ligand-gated or voltage-gated. The idiopathic epilepsies thus appear, at least in part, to be a family of channelopathies.