Mesuximide

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Mesuximide (or methsuximide, methosuximide) is a succinimide anticonvulsant medication. It is sold as a racemate by Pfizer under the tradenames Petinutin (Switzerland)[1] and Celontin (United States).[2] The therapeutic efficacy of methosuximide is largely due to its pharmacologically active metabolite, N-desmethylmethosuximide, which has a longer half-life and attains much higher plasma levels than its parent.[3]

Medical use

is indicated for the control of absence seizures that are refractory to other drugs.[2]

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