Articles Tagged With: Epilepsy
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Treatment of AVM-related Epilepsy
There is insufficient evidence to recommend invasive AVM management to reduce epileptic seizure frequency, and this will have to be evaluated in a long-term randomized, controlled clinical trial.
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Prevalence and Progression of Epilepsy in Adults with Mitochondrial Disease
In a prospective study of 182 consecutive patients at a specialized mitochondrial clinic in the United Kingdom, followed for more than 7 years, recording the initial prevalence of epilepsy, and subsequently tracking occurrences of new seizure activity, status epilepticus, stroke-like episodes, and death during the follow-up period, epilepsy was found to be a common feature of these disorders.
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Potential Imaging Biomarkers of SUDEP: Can We Predict Sudden Death in Epilepsy?
The authors retrospectively conducted a voxel-based analysis of T1 MRI scans to compare gray matter volumes in 12 cases of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) acquired at a median of 2 years before death with patients at high or low risk for SUDEP and with healthy controls, and demonstrated significant anatomical differences between the groups.
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Brief Alerts: Magnesium in Menstrual Migraines; Sudden Death in Epilepsy
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Analgesic Options Using Antiepileptic Medication
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Electrical Brain Stimulation and Epilepsy — Fighting Fire with Fire