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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT00216567
Date of registration: 13/09/2005
Primary sponsor: Janssen Korea, Ltd., Korea
Public title: Safety and Efficacy of Topamax Versus Carbamazepine in Benign Rolandic Epilepsy
Scientific title: A Randomized, Open Label, Comparative, Multi-center Clinical Trial to Determine the Efficacy and Safety of Topiramate Comparing With Carbamazepine in Benign Rolandic Epilepsy.
Date of first enrolment: December 2002
Target sample size: 114
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00216567
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
Contacts
Name:   Janssen Korea, Ltd. Clinical Trial
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Affiliation:  Janssen Korea, Ltd.
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Subjects whose guardians submitted written consent

- Subjects with more than 2 seizures in last 1 year

- Subjects showing one of the following additional criteria

- Psychological burden due to seizure

- Seizure in daytime

- More than 3 seizures in last 6 month

- Convulsive seizure

Exclusion Criteria:

- Abnormalities on MRI, EEG

- Mental retardation

- History of seizure relapse

- Seizures due to organic causes

- Medically serious acute or chronic disease or progressive and degenerative disorders

- Patients who have received an investigational medication



Age minimum: 5 Years
Age maximum: 15 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Epilepsy, Rolandic
Intervention(s)
Drug: topamax
Primary Outcome(s)
Seizure-free rate at 24 weeks in comparison of topiramate to carbamazepine
Secondary Outcome(s)
In comparison of topiramate to carbamazepine, Intellectual Functioning : KEDI-WISC (Korean Educational Development Institute Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised)
Secondary ID(s)
CR005077
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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