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Status epilepticus during correction of hyponatremia in a patient with Alzheimer’s disease: A case report

SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, 2020
An 83-year-old Japanese man with Alzheimer’s disease was admitted to our hospital for treatment of hyponatremia resulting from water intoxication. During hospitalization, the patient developed focal impaired awareness seizures, focal to bilateral tonic ...
Ken Ichioka, Nobuhiro Akuzawa, Akio Takahashi   +2 more
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Two cases of focal status epilepticus in pregnancy

Epilepsy & Behavior Reports, 2021
The management of women with epilepsy (WWE) presents many challenges for physicians. The primary goal during pregnancy is to achieve the best possible control of seizures with the least adverse effects associated with exposure to antiseizure medications (
Andrew Christiana, Micaela Della Torre, Anna Serafini   +2 more
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Audiogenic reflex seizures in cats [PDF]

, 2015
This study aims at characterizing feline audiogenic reflex seizures (FARS). An online questionnaire was developed to capture information from owners with cats suffering FARS.
Sparkes, A, Harvey, Robert J, Bessant, C, Lowrie, M, Garosi, L, Harvey, RJ   +5 more
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Effect of Brivaracetam on Efficacy and Tolerability in Patients With Brain Tumor-Related Epilepsy: A Retrospective Multicenter Study

Frontiers in Neurology, 2020
Background: Epilepsy is a common symptom of brain tumors and is often pharmacoresistent. Among new antiseizure medications (ASMs) Brivaracetam (BRV) has been approved as adjunctive treatment for focal seizures and it was tested in non-oncological patient
Marta Maschio, Andrea Maialetti, Cristina Mocellini, Elisabetta Domina, Giada Pauletto, Cinzia Costa, Addolorata Mascia, Michele Romoli, Diana Giannarelli   +8 more
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GABAergic circuits drive focal seizures

Neurobiology of Disease, 2023
Epilepsy is based on abnormal neuronal activities that have historically been suggested to arise from an excess of excitation and a defect of inhibition, or in other words from an excessive glutamatergic drive not balanced by GABAergic activity.
Elena Dossi, Gilles Huberfeld
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Predictors of anti-convulsant treatment failure in children presenting with malaria and prolonged seizures in Kampala, Uganda. [PDF]

, 2009
BACKGROUND: In endemic areas, falciparum malaria remains the leading cause of seizures in children presenting to emergency departments. In addition, seizures in malaria have been shown to increase morbidity and mortality in these patients. The management
Staedke Sarah G, Rosenthal, Philip J, Sarah G Staedke, Staedke, Sarah G, Byarugaba Justus, Arthur Mpimbaza, Mpimbaza Arthur, Philip J Rosenthal, Justus Byarugaba, Ndeezi, Grace, Rosenthal Philip J, Mpimbaza, Arthur, Ndeezi Grace, Grace Ndeezi, Byarugaba, Justus   +14 more
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Vagus nerve stimulation for generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus (GEFS+) accompanying seizures with impaired consciousness

Epilepsy and Behavior Case Reports, 2017
Generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus (GEFS+) is characterized by childhood-onset epilepsy syndrome. It involves febrile seizures and a variety of afebrile epileptic seizure types within the same pedigree with autosomal-dominant inheritance ...
Ryosuke Hanaya, Fajar H Niantiarno, Yumi Kashida, Hiroshi Hosoyama, Shinsuke Maruyama, Sei Sugata, Toshiaki Otsubo, Kazumi Tanaka, Atsushi Ishii, Shinichi Hirose, Kazunori Arita   +10 more
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Different pharmacoresistance of focal epileptic spasms, generalized epileptic spasms, and generalized epileptic spasms combined with focal seizures

Epilepsia Open, 2022
Objective Among standard treatments for infantile spasms, adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) is reported as the best treatment, but ACTH is ineffective in one‐half of the patients.
Yukitoshi Takahashi, Akiko Ota, Jun Tohyama, Tomoko Kirino, Yumi Fujiwara, Chizuru Ikeda, Shigeki Tanaka, Jyunya Takahashi, Toshihiko Shinoki, Hiroshi Shiraga, Takushi Inoue, Hiroshi Fujita, Motoki Bonno, Masayoshi Nagao, Hideo Kaneko   +14 more
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Clinical analysis on 22 patients with childhood and juvenile epilepsy related focal cortical dysplasia

Chinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgery, 2018
Background Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) is a group of diseases including abnormal cortical layer, abnormal cell structure and abnormal white matter. It is one of the main causes of intractable epilepsy.
Yang LIU, Xin DENG, Feng-jun LIU, Jing CHEN, Xiao-ming GUO, Li-xia WANG, Xun WU, Wei-wei WANG   +7 more
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Dynamic mechanisms of neocortical focal seizure onset.

PLoS Computational Biology, 2014
Recent experimental and clinical studies have provided diverse insight into the mechanisms of human focal seizure initiation and propagation.
Yujiang Wang, Marc Goodfellow, Peter Neal Taylor, Gerold Baier   +3 more
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