Zonisamide is a sulfonamide anticonvulsant approved for use as an adjunct therapy in adults with partial-onset seizures. It was discovered by researchers at Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma (大日本住友製薬: Dainippon Sumitomo Seiyaku (formerly Dainippon Pharmaceutical (大日本製薬: Dainippon Seiyaku)), who launched it in 1989 as Excegran® in Japan. It was marketed by Élan in the United States starting in 2000 as Zonegran®, before Élan transferred their interests in zonisamide to Eisai (エーザイ) in 2004. Eisai also markets Zonegran® in Asia (China, Taiwan, and fourteen others) and Europe (starting in Germany and the United Kingdom).

Uses

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Approved

Zonisamide is approved in the United States, United Kingdom, for adjunctive treatment of partial seizures in adults and in Japan for both adjunctive and monotherapy for partial seizures (simple, complex, secondarily generalized), generalized (tonic, tonic-clonic (grand mal), and atypical absence) and combined seizures.

Unapproved/Off-Label/Investigational

An open trial on zonisamide in seven Parkinson's disease patients had positive results, according to this 2001 report. Since then, it has been reported to treat the resting tremor that other therapies may leave behind. By early November of 2005, Dainippon Sumitomo had filed a NDA for the use of zonisamide in Parkinson's disease; it is to be marketed as Tremode®.

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