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Epileptic Palatal Myoclonus

open access: yesPediatric Neurology Briefs, 1991
A 14 year old girl with epilepsia partialis continua complicated by palatal myoclonus of focal cortical origin is reported from the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, Graduate Hospital; and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.
J Gordon Millichap
doaj   +1 more source

Predicting seizure freedom in the postpartum period: Findings from the Maternal Outcomes and Neurodevelopmental Effects of Antiepileptic Drugs study

open access: yesEpilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective This study was undertaken to evaluate whether seizure freedom in pregnancy predicts seizure freedom in the postpartum period in women with epilepsy (WWE). Prior studies have shown that seizure freedom prior to conception strongly predicts seizure freedom during pregnancy.
Emma C. Osterhaus   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Low diagnostic yield of presurgical genetic testing in adult patients with epilepsy

open access: yesEpilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective To determine the diagnostic yield of genetic testing in patients undergoing presurgical evaluation for epilepsy. Methods We conducted a cohort study including 115 adult patients who underwent presurgical evaluation in the Calgary Epilepsy Program between 2019 and 2023 and who had undergone research exome sequencing.
Clara Jünemann   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cognitive and behavioral clinical outcome assessments in children with developmental and epileptic encephalopathies: Issues and instruments

open access: yesEpilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Children with developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) face cognitive and behavioral challenges that may have a greater impact than seizures on their quality of life (QoL). The need to assess these nonseizure outcomes for evaluating treatments is increasingly recognized.
Cinzia Correale   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Uso de lacosamida en pacientes pediátricos con epilepsia refractaria como terapia adjunta, revisión sistemática de la literatura

open access: yesActa Neurológica Colombiana, 2015
Objetivo: presentar la evidencia publicada hasta el momento acerca de la utilidad de la lacosamida en población pediátrica con epilepsia refractaria.
Johann Sebastián Ortiz de la Rosa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Diagnosis and management guidelines for infantile epileptic spasms syndrome around the world: A scoping review and comparative study of international approaches

open access: yesEpilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Infantile epileptic spasms syndrome (IESS) is an epileptic encephalopathy requiring rapid diagnosis and treatment to optimize neurodevelopmental outcomes. Although multiple national and regional guidelines exist, recommendations vary.
Gozde Erdemir   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Case of Frontotemporal Dementia with Epilepsia Partialis Continua Responding to Lacosamide Treatment

open access: yesArchives of Epilepsy, 2019
Seizures may occur in frontotemporal lobar degeneration syndromes as an element of a heterogeneous group of disorders, according to both clinical phenotype and neuropathology.
Yasemin DİNÇ, Gönül ÇELİK AKDAĞ
doaj   +1 more source

Clinical and electroencephalographic characteristics of a cohort of patients with epilepsy and absence seizures Características clínicas e eletrencefalográficas de uma coorte de pacientes com epilepsia com crises de ausência

open access: yesArquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2009
BACKGROUND: Epileptic syndromes with absence seizures (AS) possess unique clinical and electroencephalographic (EEG) characteristics. In typical or atypical AS, ictal phenomenology may include various characteristics.
Soniza Vieira Alves-Leon   +3 more
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Individualização do tratamento com topiramato em pacientes infantis com epilepsia focal

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Ciências Biomédicas, 2023
O topiramato é um medicamento antiepilético utilizado em crises de epilepsia parciais em adultos e crianças, atuando no sistema nervoso central (SNC) e trazendo equilíbrio às células neurológicas. O estudo tem aplicação em pacientes infantis, em que são demonstrados os efeitos benéficos da individualização, principalmente por se tratar de um fraco ...
Isabelle Fernandes Inocencio   +5 more
openaire   +1 more source

Effectiveness and tolerability of fenfluramine in pediatric and adult patients with developmental and epileptic encephalopathies: A multicenter, retrospective, real‐world clinical‐practice study

open access: yesEpilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) are characterized by drug‐resistant seizures and developmental slowing/regression. We examined the efficacy and tolerability of fenfluramine (FFA) in pediatric and adult patients with Lennox–Gastaut syndrome (LGS), Dravet syndrome (DS), and other DEEs.
Vicente Villanueva   +29 more
wiley   +1 more source

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