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Efficacy of lacosamide add-on therapy on Refractory Focal Epilepsies in children and adolescents: An open-label clinical trial

Journal of Research in Pharmacy Practice, 2022
Objective: Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder that affects 0.5%–1% of children. 30%–40% of patients are resistant to current anti-epileptic drugs.
Tayebeh Mohammadi, Jafar Nasiri, Mohammad Reza Ghazavi, Omid Yaghini, Neda Hoseini   +4 more
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Orbitofrontal epilepsy: Electroclinical analysis of surgical cases and literature review [PDF]

, 2004
Clinical and electrographic data were reviewed on 2 of our patients with orbitofrontal epilepsy who were seizure free at 5-year follow-up, and on 2 similar patients from the literature.
Winkler, Peter, Sillay, Karl, Smith, Joseph R., King, Don W., Loring, David W.   +4 more
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Premature mortality in refractory partial epilepsy: does surgical treatment make a difference? [PDF]

, 2010
Background: Epilepsy carries an increased risk of premature death. For some people with intractable focal epilepsy, surgery offers hope for a seizure-free life.
Scott, C.A., Sander, J.W., Sinha, S, Bell, G. S., de Tisi, J., Harkness, WF, McEvoy, A.W., Walker, M. C., Duncan, John S., Scott, CA, Smith, SJ, Bell, G.S., Stephani, C, McEvoy, A.W, Bell, G.S, Peacock, JL, Sander, Josemir W., Smith, S. J., McEvoy, AW, Walker, M.C., Harkness, W.F, Harkness, W.F., Tisi, J., Peacock, J. L., Scott, C.A, Duncan, JS, Smith, S.J, McEvoy, A. W., Sander, JW, Walker, MC, Duncan, J.S, Peacock, J.L, Stephani, C., Dunacan, S.J., Peacock, J.L., Tisi, J, Bell, GS, Walker, M.C, Stephani, Caspar, Scott, Catherine, Sinha, S., Harkness, W. F., Smith, S.J., de Tisi, J, Sander, J.W   +44 more
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Oxcarbazepine Monotherapy

Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2006
The efficacy of oxcarbazepine monotherapy in 60 children and adolescents (aged 6 months to 17.8 years; mean age 8.2 yrs) with partial onset epilepsy was evaluated by retrospective chart review in a study at St Christopher’s Hospital for Children ...
J Gordon Millichap
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Effect of lateralized epileptic discharges on the thought flow [PDF]

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2001
PURPOSE: Pauses in verbal expression of thought flow in patients with partial epilepsy was studied in order to achieve a best comprehension of brain interhemispheric influences.
Paulo Bueno de Mendonça, Lucy Campos Piccinin, Celso Medeiros Capucho, Carlos José Reis de Campos   +3 more
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Progress in the Genetics of the Partial Epilepsies [PDF]

Epilepsia, 2001
Summary: The importance of genetic contributions to the partial epilepsies is now well established. Evidence for this genetic contribution has come from familial aggregation studies, twin studies, positional cloning of specific genes that raise risk, and clinical descriptions of families.
openaire   +2 more sources

CLINICAL AND ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF LACOSAMIDE IN PATIENTS WITH PARTIAL EPILEPSY

Фармакоэкономика, 2016
Aims of study: 1) development of a model for forecasting of impact of Lacosamide administration for antiseizure therapy of local convulsions in patients, who are resistant to previous antiseizure therapy, for the account of healthcare and social security
E. A. Pyadushkina, M. Yu. Frolov
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Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Refractory Epilepsy: Effects on Pro- and Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines in Peripheral Blood [PDF]

, 2010
Objective: The vagus nerve has important immunological functions that may be relevant for its anticonvulsive action. We postulate that this anticonvulsive action is activated by a shift in the immune system resulting in a reduction of neurotoxic and an ...
J.S.H. Vles, Schwarz, J.M., Berfelo, M. W., M. Schwarz, Vles, J. S. H., Schwarz, M., Hulsman, J. A. R. J., A. Myint, Majoie, H. J. M., M.W. Berfelo, Hulsman, J.A.R.J., K. Rijkers, Myint, A., J.A.R.J. Hulsman, Rijkers, K., H.J.M. Majoie   +15 more
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NEW OPPORTUNITIES PHARMACOTHERAPY PATIENTS WITH REFRACTORY EPILEPSY

Эпилепсия и пароксизмальные состояния, 2017
Objective: to generalize the Russian experience with perampanel (PER) in routine clinical practice; to do this, the results of its use as an adjuvant partial epilepsy medication were retrospectively assessed. The study is still in progress now; therefore,
P. N. Vlasov
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The appropriacy of fluency tests in assessing epileptic seizure lateralization in children with partial epilepsy [PDF]

Psihologija, 2008
Fluency tests are frequently used in clinical practice to asses executive functions. The literature data are not unequivocal although in a great number of papers is pointed out the importance of the left hemisphere, specially of the left frontal lobes in
Vuksanović Jasmina, Đurić Milena
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