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Seizure action plans: Management and educational tools in epilepsy care -
Historically, seizure action plans have focused on certain high-risk groups—such as people with drug-resistant epilepsy and people with a history of status epilepticus or seizure clusters. Neurology ...
Study: Epilepsy patients benefit from structured 'seizure action plans' -
A new 16-week study of 204 adult epilepsy patients found that 98% of participants believe that all patients with epilepsy should have a seizure action plan (SAP), regardless of seizure status. These ...
Opinion | If a student had a seizure in the classroom, would your school be prepared? -
"A parent whose child has epilepsy shouldn’t have to send an email in August asking whether anyone in the building knows what to do," high schooler Rishik Kondadadi writes.
Using Seizure-Risk Forecasts to ID Best Time for Epilepsy Monitoring -
NASHVILLE, Tennessee ― Scheduling video-electroencephalography (vEEG) monitoring on the basis of personalized seizure risk forecasts may improve diagnostic accuracy, emerging research suggests. In a ...
New tools map seizures in the brain, improve epilepsy treatment -
Two new models could solve a problem that's long frustrated millions of people with epilepsy and the doctors who treat them: how to find precisely where seizures originate to treat exactly that part ...
Seizure Burden in Resistant Epilepsy May Ease With the Tincture of Time -
Nearly 70% of patients with focal treatment-resistant epilepsy (FTRE) experience fewer seizures over time, new results of a multicenter study showed. However, the improvements occurred independent of ...
Pediatrics in Brevard: Here's what to know about epilepsy, what to do if someone has seizure -
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 3.4 million people in the United States have epilepsy, so it is a relatively common diagnosis. In fact, it is the fourth ...
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Utility and limitations of cortico-cortical evoked potentials in pediatric resective epilepsy surgery: illustrative case -
BACKGROUND: The authors present the case of a 15-year-old male who underwent resection of a left parieto-occipital long-term epilepsy-associated tumor (LEAT) near the language and visual tracts. Tractography-guided dorsal language stream cortico-cortical evoked potentials (CCEPs) and visual evoked potentials (VEPs) were used intraoperatively under general anesthesia to minimize postoperative de...
Stereo-electroencephalography-guided radiofrequency thermocoagulation in patients with implanted neuromodulation devices: patient series -
BACKGROUND: The authors aimed to evaluate the feasibility/safety of stereo-electroencephalography (SEEG) and SEEG-guided radiofrequency thermocoagulation (RFTC) in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy previously implanted with neuromodulation devices, using a retrospective cohort design evaluating patients treated at the Mayo Clinic Florida Epilepsy Center.
Changes in effectiveness and safety in patients with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome transitioning from the fenfluramine randomized controlled trial to open-label extension study -
In the phase 3 randomized controlled trial (RCT; NCT03355209) of fenfluramine in Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS), patients in fenfluramine treatment groups (0.2 mg/kg/day, 0.7 mg/kg/day) experienced greater reduction from baseline in frequency of seizures associated with a fall versus placebo, which was sustained in the open-label extension (OLE) study (NCT03355209). In this post hoc analysis, tr...
Occipital irregular delta activity in focal epilepsy -
CONCLUSION: From the practical perspective, OID could serve as a potential age-dependent EEG marker of idiopathic FE. In most cases, the presence of OID contradicts a symptomatic etiology.
Effect of time to palliative epilepsy surgery on outcomes -
OBJECTIVE: Epilepsy duration is a modifiable risk factor in the outcome of definitive epilepsy surgery; however, an analogous effect in palliative procedures has not been shown. We reviewed the Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Database data for an association between epilepsy duration and seizure reduction in palliative procedures.
Focal Hippocampal Onset and its Effect on Surgical Outcomes: A Case Report and Case Series -
In mesial temporal lobe epilepsy, resection or ablation-typically of anterior temporal structures-is highly successful in achieving seizure freedom. However, in a substantial proportion of patients, seizures recur for unclear reasons. Invasive hippocampal recordings suggest that, in some patients, hippocampal seizures are highly focal, often restricted to the anterior or posterior hippocampus. ...
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