METHODS OF TREATING EPILEPTIC PATIENTS WITH FENFLURAMINE

摘要

The present disclosure provides methods of treating and/or preventing symptoms of epilepsy or epileptic encephalopathy where fenfluramine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof is or has been administered to a patient or population of patients. The present disclosure encompasses a recognition of contraindication of fenfluramine and certain serotonin receptor agonists, particularly a CNS penetrant serotonin receptor antagonist. The present disclosure provides methods where said patients being administered fenfluramine have been warned against co-administration of certain serotonin receptor antagonists, are not co-administered a serotonin receptor antagonist, and/or in which co-administration of a serotonin-receptor antagonist is discontinued.