Anti-seizure medicationelderlyepilepsyprescribing in elderlyseizures in elderlyIntroduction: Epilepsy treatment in older people requires specific consideration owing to more physical co-morbidities, the risk of drug-to-drug interactions through polypharmacy, and differences in pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics...
Status epilepticus (SE) is a prolonged seizure and constitutes a neurologic emergency as it can have long-term deleterious neurologic consequences (Berg et al., 2013; Trinka et al., 2015). The time period after which a seizure is considered to be prolonged, and treatment should be considered...
Healthcare professionals can leverage the identified important features and their dependencies to gain deeper insights into the decision-making process, aiding in informed diagnosis and treatment decisions for patients with epilepsy.Keywords Epileptic seizure Epilepsy EEG Explainable AI Machine learning...
A study showed that medication will control the seizures of around 60% to 70% of persons with epilepsy. The general likelihood of epilepsy recurring after experiencing a solitary seizure ranges from 27-71%. Roughly 70% of children will enter a phase where they experience a span of at least ...
Decisions about when to start and stop antiepileptic treatment have important implications for patients with epilepsy. Clinical practice varies and is determined more by dogmatic teaching than by knowledge of either the clinical course of epilepsy or the influence of the drugs. A review of the availa...
medication has a significant effect on the prognosis of children. Related studies have also confirmed that the prognosis of children who can take medicine regularly is significantly better than that of children who cannot take medicine regularly [47]. In the process of long-term treatment, coupled...
experiencingepilepsy, lifestyle changes may be the key to improving seizure control. While more research needs to be done, early evidence suggests that some lifestyle modifications andstress-reducing techniquesmay be helpful for epilepsy when practiced in combination with taking anti-seizure medication....
3. Subjects Amenable to Treatment In various embodiments, the patient may be experiencing an electrographic or behavioral seizure or may be experiencing a seizure aura, which itself is a localized seizure that may spread and become a full blown behavioral seizure. For example, the subject may be...
Antiseizure medication-induced hypersensitivity reactions: Data from a large healthcare system Data on hypersensitivity reactions (HR) to individual anti-seizure medications (ASMs), and reactions to additional ASMs, is often limited by sample size. T... B Cadle,FU Candan,Z Haneef,... - 《...
In all cases treatment with anticonvulsive medication resulted in total remission even at low serum concentrations. The seizure activity of Patient 2 was well controlled after reinstitution of the same medication after unsuccessful attempts to taper it off. In addition, one patient was identified ...