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Surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy in Semarang,Indonesia: The first 56 patients with follow up longer than 12 months [PDF]

, 2006
Until October 2005, surgery were performed for 76 intractable temporal lobe epilepsy patients. Among them, 56 patients had follow-up of 12-76 months. The patients consisted of 35 males and 21 females,age between 3-38 year-old.
Muttaqin, Zainal
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Six adult patients with septo-optic dysplasia and drug-resistant epilepsy: Clinical findings and course

Epilepsy and Behavior Case Reports, 2017
Septo-optic dysplasia (SOD) is a rare disorder associated with optic nerve hypoplasia, pituitary abnormalities and agenesis/dysgenesis of midline brain structures including the septum pellucidum and corpus callosum.
Mashael AlKhateeb, Richard McLachlan, Jorge Burneo, David Diosy, Seyed Mirsattari   +4 more
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Genetic Analysis of Sodium Channel Genes in Pediatric Epilepsy Patients of Pakistan

Genetics Research, 2022
Epilepsy affects millions of people worldwide. Although antiepileptic drugs work for the majority of epileptic patients, these drugs do not work for some of the patients, subjecting them to drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE). Voltage-gated sodium channels act
Aqsa Ashfaq, Tayyaba Saleem, Nadeem Sheikh, Hafsa Maqbool   +3 more
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Metabolomics As a Tool for the Characterization of Drug-Resistant Epilepsy [PDF]

Frontiers in Neurology, 2017
PURPOSE: Drug resistance is a critical issue in the treatment of epilepsy, contributing to clinical emergencies and increasing both serious social and economic burdens on the health system. The wide variety of potential drug combinations followed by often failed consecutive attempts to match drugs to an individual patient may mean that this treatment ...
Federica Murgia, Antonella Muroni, Monica Puligheddu, Lorenzo Polizzi, Luigi Barberini, Gianni Orofino, Paolo Solla, Simone Poddighe, Simone Poddighe, Francesco Del Carratore, Francesco Del Carratore, Julian L. Griffin, Luigi Atzori, Francesco Marrosu   +13 more
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Utilization of care among drug resistant epilepsy patients with symptoms of anxiety and depression

, 2014
PurposeEpilepsy patients have a significantly higher rate of anxiety and depression than the general population, and psychiatric disease is particularly prevalent among drug resistant epilepsy patients. Symptoms of anxiety and depression might serve as a
Hamilton, Katherine T., Lawler, Kathy, French, Jacqueline, Hesdorffer, Dale, Pollard, John R., Dahodwala, Nabila, Anderson, Christopher T.   +6 more
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Anti-Neuronal Autoantibodies in Both Drug Responsive and Resistant Focal Seizures with Unknown Cause

, 2021
Background: and Objective Autoimmunity is an emerging field of research in the etiology of different neurological disorders including epilepsy. We aimed to investigate the presence of neuronal autoantibodies in focal epilepsy with unknown cause and their
Ulusoy, CANAN AYSEL, Delil, Sakir, Ozkara, Cigdem, Yeni, Naz, Gunduz, Aysegul, Gozubatik-Celik, Gokcen, Tuzun, Erdem   +6 more
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Drug resistant epilepsy as the consequence of inadequate control of type 1 diabetes

Hypoglycemic encephalopathy (HE) is a type of encephalopathy resulting from extremely low blood glucose level. Symptoms are not specific and can be misdiagnosed very often.
Maria Mazurkiewicz-Bełdzińska, Marta Zawadzka, Natalia Omieczyńska, Ewa M. Sokolewicz, Kamil Dzwilewski   +4 more
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[Drug-resistant epilepsy].

Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke, 2009
Despite the introduction of many new antiepileptic drugs during recent years, about one third of the epilepsy population continue to have drug-resistant seizures. We present two hypotheses on mechanisms of drug-resistant epileptic seizures.The article is based on our own clinical experience and literature identified through a PubMed search using the ...
Karl O, Nakken, Erik, Taubøll
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Surgery for Drug-Resistant Epilepsy in Children

New England Journal of Medicine, 2017
Neurosurgical treatment may improve seizures in children and adolescents with drug-resistant epilepsy, but additional data are needed from randomized trials.In this single-center trial, we randomly assigned 116 patients who were 18 years of age or younger with drug-resistant epilepsy to undergo brain surgery appropriate to the underlying cause of ...
Rekha, Dwivedi, Bhargavi, Ramanujam, P Sarat, Chandra, Savita, Sapra, Sheffali, Gulati, Mani, Kalaivani, Ajay, Garg, Chandra S, Bal, Madhavi, Tripathi, Sada N, Dwivedi, Rajesh, Sagar, Chitra, Sarkar, Manjari, Tripathi   +12 more
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Cannabis use patterns in drug-resistant and pharmacoresponsive epilepsy

, 2023
This study sought to identify differences in cannabis use and perceptions about cannabis in mitigating seizure-related symptoms in patients with epilepsy, and to evaluate differences in these patterns between drug-resistant versus pharmacoresponsive ...
Marielle Darwin, John Thompson
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