Efficacy of intravenous lacosamide in refractory nonconvulsive status epilepticus and simple partial status epilepticus [PDF]
, 2011 K. Rantsch +4 more
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Epilepsia, EarlyView.Abstract Epilepsy affects approximately 1% of the population worldwide, and although medications are effective in the majority of cases, seizures persist in approximately 30% of patients. Despite the effort to develop new antiseizure drugs, the rate of pharmacoresistance in patients has not diminished over the past 3 decades. There is thus a real unmet
Vincent Magloire +9 more
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Status epilepticus in the elderly: differential diagnosis and treatment
Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 2011 Elizabeth Ann Mauricio, William David FreemanMayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USADate of Preparation 28th January 2011 Conflict of interest: None declaredAbstract: Seizures are not an uncommon occurrence in older adults, and the incidence of status ...
Mauricio EA, Freeman WD
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A Randomised Trial on the Treatment of Refractory Status Epilepticus [PDF]
, 2011 Emma M. Jenkinson +2 more
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Epileptogenesis in meningioma: Theories, putative biomarkers, and postoperative risk
Epilepsia, EarlyView.Abstract Cranial meningioma are the most common type of primary brain tumor, and focal onset, tumor‐related seizures affect a significant proportion of patients. Seizures affect 30% of symptomatic preoperative patients and a further 12% of postoperative patients.
William H. Cook +5 more
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Topiramate for the treatment of neonatal seizures and beyond
Epilepsia, EarlyView.Abstract Acute symptomatic neonatal seizures are one of the most common neurological disorders in newborns admitted to neonatal intensive care units and require prompt treatment. Up to 50% of neonatal seizures are refractory to first‐line medications such as phenobarbital (PB), and another 30% fail second‐line therapy.
Wolfgang Löscher, Janet S. Soul
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Long‐term survival after adult epilepsy surgery: Mortality and predictors in a large cohort
Epilepsia, EarlyView.Abstract Objective Long‐term survival data in adults undergoing surgery for drug‐resistant focal epilepsy remain limited. We examined mortality patterns and predictors in a large cohort followed for over 30 years. Methods Adults who underwent epilepsy surgery (1990–2022) were analyzed.
Giorgio Fiore +6 more
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Refractory status epilepticus: Electroconvulsive therapy as a possible therapeutic strategy [PDF]
, 2012 Virginie Lambrecq +6 more
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Familial adult myoclonus epilepsy: A comprehensive diagnostic strategy for clinical practice
Epilepsia, EarlyView.Abstract Familial adult myoclonus epilepsy (FAME) is a genetic neurological disorder characterized by cortical myoclonus and epileptic seizures with clinical features that overlap with other movement disorders and epileptic syndromes, particularly essential tremor (ET), progressive myoclonic epilepsy (PME), and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME).
Yitao Lu +14 more
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Refractory status epilepticus in a patient with short bowel syndrome—A microdialysis study [PDF]
, 2012 Alois Josef Schiefecker +12 more
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