A major problem for unresponsive patients has been the lag time in aggressively receiving treatment of medications or progressing to surgery, said Jerome Engel, Jr., MD, a professor of neurology and chief of epilepsy at the University of California in Los Angeles. "If you can stop the seizures...
Therefore, initial treatment should be based in part on the seizure type diagnosis or, at least, on whether the epilepsy syndrome is focal or generalized. The AEDs also differ in their safety, tolerability, and potential for pharmacologic interactions. These issues and the patient's comorbid ...
If the article submitted to theJournal ofEpilepsyis a clinical study, it should be indicated whether the clinical study conforms to the principles stipulated in the Declaration of Helsinki(DoH), whether it has been approved by the Medical Ethics Committee (if approved, the name of the committee ...
New epilepsy treatment guidelines that aim to educate physicians about treatment options and provide patients with improved QOL 来自 Ingenta 喜欢 0 阅读量: 13 作者:B KARAGEORGIS,A KARDALINOS 摘要: We study the spectrum of the Poincaré variational problem for two close to touching inclusions in ...
An evidence-based guideline update on vagus nerve stimulation for treatment of epilepsy supports consideration of its use in children, in patients with Lennox–Gastaut syndrome, and to improve mood in adults. Its efficacy may also increase over prolonged treatment. These conclusions are tentative, ho...
"When patients feel their treatment options are limited, they don't have to accept 'good enough.' Epilepsy centers offer hope," said Dr. Arnold. "But epilepsy centers will need the resources to provide this comprehensive level of care. We hope the guidelines will help increase health insurer...
Epileptic Disorders publishes articles related to the clinical management of epilepsy, including all aspects of diagnosis, natural history and treatment. An original feature ofEpileptic Disordersis the possibility to publish video sequences, to demonstrate what constitutes the essence of epileptic phenomena...
To achieve the goal of the World Health Organization to eliminate viral hepatitis as a major public health threat by 2030, the Chinese Society of Infectious Diseases and the Chinese Society of Hepatology convened an expert panel in 2019 to update the guidelines for the prevention and treatment of...
Treatment of epilepsy via batch-mode reinforcement learning. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 1671–1678 (AAAI, 2008). Komorowski, M., Celi, L. A., Badawi, O., Gordon, A. & Faisal, A. Nat. Med. 24, 1716–1720 (2018). Chakraborty, B., ...
“In the same way as the Curriculum for Excellence aims to ensure that every child and young person reaches their full potential, so would the implementation of the new SIGN guideline give adults the very best diagnosis, treatment and management of their epilepsy. ...