refractory epilepsy
Profiles of multidrug resistance protein-1 in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells of patients with refractory epilepsy.
... examined epilepsy patients, healthy volunteers, and non-epilepsy patients taking ...divided refractory epilepsy patients according to their seizure frequency and the number of medications ...
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Influence of the clinical profile of patients with refractory epilepsy on lamotrigine plasma concentration
... The lack of association between LTG plasma concentration values and adverse events was also found by Bootsma and colleagues (2008). Faced with this evidence and the good tolerability of LTG, it is important that further ...
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Oxcarbazepine for refractory epilepsy: systematic review of the literature
... After an exhaustive search in several databases with the aim of prov- ing whether oxcarbazepine was efective and safe for treating refractory epilepsy, we only identiied four randomized clinical trials. ...
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Epileptologists probe vagus nerve stimulation in children with refractory epilepsy: a promise against sudden unexpected death in epilepsy
... in epilepsy (SUDEP) is mainly a problem for people with refractory epilepsy, but our understanding of the best way to its prevention is still ...
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Hemispheric surgery for refractory epilepsy in children and adolescents: Outcome regarding seizures, motor skills and adaptive function
... Hemispheric epilepsy in children represent a functional and/or structural impairment, and seizures can potentially lead to limitations and restrictions. Despite the motor injury that is a consequence of HS, the ...
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Arq. NeuroPsiquiatr. vol.65 número1
... treated. One possible explanation can be the fact that seizures are probably one of the most frighten- ing event a parent can experience. For that reason, parents often will take the child with refractory ...
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J. epilepsy clin. neurophysiol. vol.13 número4
... refractory epilepsy since the age of 8 months characterized by generalized seizures – myoclonic and tonic-clonic seizures. Later, these seizures were associated to atypical absence and atonic seizures. MRI ...
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Environmental air pollution is an aggravating event for sudden unexpected death in epilepsy
... It is extremely dificult to estimate the occurrence of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). On the other hand, discovering and carefully evaluating new risk factors that may contribute to the onset of ...
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J. epilepsy clin. neurophysiol. vol.17 número4
... Introduction: Epilepsy is considered a health ...of refractory epilepsy with a supplement combining EPA, DHA (omega 3 fatty acids) and GLA (omega 6 fatty ...have refractory epilepsy, ...
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Rev. Assoc. Med. Bras. vol.60 número6
... All patients referred had a PNES diagnosis conduct- ed via video-EEG monitoring. The professionals conduct- ing the video-EEG communicated the diagnosis to the patient and recommended the cessation of anticonvul- sants, ...
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Arq. NeuroPsiquiatr. vol.68 número6
... with refractory epilepsy and its relation to previous surgery and lesion ...with refractory epilepsy followed up by the Epilepsy Surgery Program of the University Hospital of PUCRS, ...
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Ketogenic Diet for Refractory Childhood Epilepsy: Beyond Seizures Control, the Experience of a Portuguese Pediatric Centre
... Patients with refractory epilepsy, with recognized eti- ology or epileptic syndrome, are proposed to KD by the Neuropediatrics Epilepsy team. A meeting at the Metabolic Disease unit is scheduled, in ...
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Arq. Bras. Cardiol. vol.87 número5
... absence epilepsy (petit mal epilepsy), despite Epilepsy is one of the most frequent causes of neurological disorders in young ...of refractory epilepsy for twelve years, when actually ...
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Braz. J. Pharm. Sci. vol.48 número1
... the Epilepsy Outpatient Clinic of the Ribeirão Preto Medical School University ...criteria: refractory epilepsy, at least three seizures in the last six months, age 18 to 65 years, in use of LTG in ...
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Arq. NeuroPsiquiatr. vol.65 número2B
... Ketogenic diet (KD) is a high fat, low carbohy- drate and adequate-protein diet, developed in the 1920’s as an attempt to control refractory epilepsy, in an era when available antiepileptic drugs (AED), as ...
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Arq. NeuroPsiquiatr. vol.54 número3
... This study presents a series of 32 patients with SOLs and refractory epilepsy who underwent surgery to include the epileptogenic focus with the lesion, and examines on the basis of its [r] ...
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Arq. NeuroPsiquiatr. vol.75 número9
... herapeutic options for the management of refractory epilepsy are still limited and AEDs, resective brain surgery and palliative procedures are possible choices among all alternatives. Failure of AEDs in ...
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Neurocysticercosis and microscopic hippocampal dysplasia in a patient with refractory mesial temporal lobe epilepsy
... ABSTRACT - Epidemiologic studies suggest that neuro c y s t i c e rcosis (NC) is the main cause of symptomatic epilepsy in developing countries. The association between NC and mesial temporal lobe epilepsy ...
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Arq. NeuroPsiquiatr. vol.58 número2B
... Seizure recurrence following surgical treatment of refractory epilepsy is usually characterized by events which are similar to the preoperative ones, and may indicate a poor prognosis. Acute postoperative ...
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Arq. NeuroPsiquiatr. vol.70 número5
... lobe epilepsy (MTLE) is the most prevalent refractory epilepsy in adolescents and adults, and its pathologic hallmark is classic hippocampal ...for refractory unilateral MTLE 1 ...
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