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Estratégias terapêuticas em epilepsia.
Acta Médica Portuguesa, 1997 With the advances in the so-called classic antiepileptic drugs (AED)--carbamazepine, phenobarbital, phenytoin and valproate--monotherapy has become the most popular strategy for the treatment of epilepsies, based on their unquestionable clinical efficacy
J Pimentel
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Recurrent abdominal pain: when an epileptic seizure should be suspected? [PDF]
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2002 Recurrent episodes of abdominal pain are common in childhood. Among the diagnostic possibilities are migraine and abdominal epilepsy (AE). AE is an infrequent syndrome with paroxystic episodes of abdominal pain, awareness disturbance, EEG abnormalities ...
Renata C. Franzon +4 more
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Profile of once-daily zonisamide as monotherapy for treatment of partial seizures in adults. [PDF]
, 2013 Epilepsy is one of the most common neurologic disorders, affecting about 50 million people around the world. It is recognized that around 50% of patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy become seizure-free with the first drug treatment, so the choice of ...
Mula, M
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Stereoelectroencephalography‐guided radiofrequency thermocoagulation (SEEG‐RFTC) has emerged as a safe and effective minimally invasive treatment for children with drug‐resistant focal epilepsy. Although evidence from real‐world studies remains limited, numerous pediatric cases have demonstrated promising outcomes. This retrospective
Weitao Chen +7 more
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Chinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgery, 2010 Objective To observe the effectiveness of low⁃frequency and subthreshold repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on patients with refractory epilepsy. Methods Twelve subjects with refractory and focal epilepsy were involved.
Li⁃na ZHANG +3 more
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Newer drugs for focal epilepsy in adults [PDF]
, 2012 A 28 year old woman sees her general practitioner after experiencing what sounds like a convulsion without any apparent provoking factor. Over the past month she has also had “blank spells” during which her husband noticed her to be unresponsive.
Brodie, M., Kwan, P.
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Considerable efforts have been dedicated to developing effective treatments for post‐stroke executive impairment (PSEI), among which repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has shown great potential. This study aimed to investigate the therapeutic effects of high‐frequency rTMS on working memory (WM) and response ...
Mengting Lao +6 more
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Neuronal migration disorders. Part I: Terminology, classification, pathophysiology, EEG and epilepsy
The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 1998 Intractable epilepsies and partial epilepsies, which make up a great majority of epileptic disorders, are not better recognized and their etiologies unveiled with the help of the new imaging techniques.
G Turanli, D Yalnizoğlu, Y Renda
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IDIOPATHIC PARTIAL EPILEPSY WITH AUDITORY FEATURES (IPEAF): A CLINICAL AND GENETIC STUDY OF 53 SPORADIC CASES [PDF]
, 2004 The purpose of our study was to describe the clinical characteristics of sporadic (S) cases of partial epilepsy with auditory features (PEAF) and pinpoint clinical, prognostic and genetic differences with respect to previously reported familial (F ...
AVONI P +13 more
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Long-term prognosis of epilepsy, prognostic patterns and drug resistance: a population-based study [PDF]
, 2016 BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Seizures in most people with epilepsy remit but prognostic markers are poorly understood. There is also little information on the long-term outcome of people who fail to achieve seizure control despite the use of two antiepileptic
Beghi, E +8 more
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