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A cluster‐randomized trial comparing home‐based primary health care and usual clinic care for epilepsy in a resource‐limited country

Epilepsia Open, 2022
Objective To ascertain whether home‐based care with community and primary healthcare workers' support improves adherence to antiseizure medications, seizure control, and quality of life over routine clinic‐based care in community samples of people with ...
Gagandeep Singh, Suman Sharma, Namita Bansal, Meenakshi Sharma, Anurag Chowdhury, Sarit Sharma, Rajinder K. Bansal, Jatinder S. Goraya, Raj K. Setia, Birinder S. Paul, Josemir W. Sander   +10 more
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The association between periodontal disease and seizure severity in refractory epilepsy patients

, 2015
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)Purpose: Periodontal diseases are common in most populations and affect people at all socioeconomic levels.
Yasuda, CL, Costa, ALF, Nahas-Scocate, ACR, Shibasaki, W, Cendes, F, Carvalho, PEG, de Freitas, CF   +6 more
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Optimal features for online seizure detection [PDF]

, 2012
31/07/12 MEB. accepted version attached, publisher allows this to be added.This study identifies characteristic features in scalp EEG that simultaneously give the best discrimination between epileptic seizures and background EEG in minimally pre-processed
Casson, Alexander J.; id_orcid, Logesparan, Lojini, Logesparan, L, Rodriguez-Villegas, E, Rodriguez-Villegas, Esther, Casson, AJ   +5 more
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Does Epilepsy Have an Impact on Locus of Control?

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Many chronic diseases impair patients’ quality of life and may also affect their control perceptions. This could particularly happen for patients with epilepsy whose seizures often imply loss of control as a deeply disturbing experience. In 1980, a study
Peter Wolf, Peter Wolf, Katia Lin, Rüta Mameniškiené, Roger Walz, Roger Walz, Roger Walz   +6 more
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Resected Brain Tissue, Seizure Onset Zone and Quantitative EEG Measures: Towards Prediction of Post-Surgical Seizure Control [PDF]

, 2015
BackgroundEpilepsy surgery is a potentially curative treatment option for pharmacoresistent patients. If non-invasive methods alone do not allow to delineate the epileptogenic brain areas the surgical candidates undergo long-term monitoring with ...
Hauf, Martinus, Wiest, Roland, Müller, Markus, Christian Rummel (819438), Rummel, Christian, Roland Wiest (109389), Eugenio Abela, Wiest, Roland G., Abela, Eugenio, Weisstanner Christian, Kaspar Schindler (774437), Müller Markus, Markus Müller (805213), Christian Weisstanner (434039), Andrzejak, Ralph Gregor, Ralph G Andrzejak, Schindler, Kaspar Anton, Schindler, Kaspar A., Eugenio Abela (182179), Markus Müller, Martinus Hauf (467004), Abela Eugenio, Pollo Claudio, Ralph G. Andrzejak (819948), Claudio Pollo (317450), Claudio Pollo, Kaspar Schindler, Schindler Kaspar, Weisstanner, Christian, Pollo, Claudio, Christian Weisstanner, Andrzejak Ralph G., Martinus Hauf, Christian Rummel, Rummel Christian, Wiest Roland, Hauf Martinus, Andrzejak, Ralph G., Roland Wiest   +38 more
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Outcomes of low-dose valproic acid treatment in patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

, 2021
Purpose: There are conflicting data regarding the drug dose that is sufficient to achieve seizure control as well as the parameters of seizure remission in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME).
Gurer, Reyhan, Aydin, Senay, Ozkara, Cigdem   +2 more
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Poor Seizure Control Among Children Attending a Tertiary Hospital in South Western Uganda – A Retrospective Study [Letter]

International Journal of General Medicine, 2023
Selvi A Mangundap Department of Nursing, Poltekkes Kemenkes Palu, Palu, IndonesiaCorrespondence: Selvi A Mangundap, Faculty of Nursing, Poltekkes Kemenkes Palu, Thalua Konchi Street Number 09, North Palu, Palu, Center Sulawesi, Indonesia, Email selvi.541.
Mangundap SA
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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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Beliefs about medication, medication adherence and seizure control among adult epilepsy patients in Kimberley, South Africa

South African Family Practice, 2015
Background: Patients with epilepsy regularly present to the Kimberley Hospital Complex’s emergency department and are managed and discharged but within a short period present again to casualty with seizures.
C. Egenasi, W. J. Steinberg, J. E. Raubenheimer   +2 more
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An EEG based real-time epilepsy seizure detection approach using discrete wavelet transform and machine learning methods

, 2022
Epilepsy is one of the most common complex brain disorders which is a chronic non-communicable disease caused by paroxysmal abnormal super-synchronous electrical activity of brain neurons. This paper proposed an electroencephalogram (EEG) based real-time
Wen, Peng, Shen, Mingkan, Li, Yan, Song, Bo   +3 more
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