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Cardiovascular safety of low-dose fenfluramine in Dravet syndrome: A review of its benefit-risk profile in a new patient population

(Schoonjans AS, et al. 2017). Fenfluramine is currently in a Phase 3 clinical trial for Dravet syndrome sponsored by Zogenix, Inc. While primarily used in the 1980s and 1990s for obesity, there were reports of it reducing seizures in the pediatric epilepsy population. It was withdrawn from the market in 1997 due to reports of […]

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