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While you’re taking it, the doctor will want you to get blood tests to see how your body handles the treatment. How often you need them depends on your type of epilepsy medication, other drugs you take, and any health conditions you might have. Tell your doctor about the other ...
The role of these agents in the treatment algorithm will be increasingly defined as clinical experience accumulates. At present, their use is largely restricted to the adjunctive treatment of focal seizures, with or without secondary generalization, in adults with epilepsy who failed to achieve ...
When seizures continue despite treatment for epilepsy, it may be because the episodes thought to be seizures are non-epileptic. In such cases, you should get a second opinion from a specialist and haveEEG-video monitoringso the diagnosis can be re-evaluated. ...
Hopes are high that this pipeline may bring therapeutic breakthroughs similar to those recently achieved with cenobamate for the common drug-resistant focal epilepsy and fenfluramine for seizures in Dravet syndrome. Furthermore, we stand at the beginning of a new era of epilepsy treatment expansion...
Medication treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and the risk of acute seizures in individuals with epilepsy. Epilepsia. 2019;60(2):284-293. doi:10.1111/epi.14640PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 27. Chen L, Mittendorfer-Rutz E, Björkenstam E, et al. ...
Sex differences in epilepsy have been described in prevalence, seizure propensity and response to treatment. Therefore, taking into account sex-based differences in epilepsy is important for both diagnostic purposes and therapeutic considerations. However, little is known about sex differences in adverse ...
Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) therapy has been widely recognized as an alternative for the treatment of drug resistant epilepsy (DRE), although modification of AEDs during VNS treatment could explain improvement in patients. We retrospectively assessed the efficacy of VNS in 30 adult epileptic patients...
Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Treatment of Partial Seizures: 2. Safety, Side Effects, and Tolerability Summary: Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) significantly reduces the frequency of partial seizures in refractory epilepsy patients. We examined the serious adv... RE Ramsay,BM Uthman,LE Augustinsson,.....
Epilepsy Centers Epilepsy centers provide you with a team of specialists to help you diagnose your epilepsy and explore treatment options. > Epilepsy Medication Find in-depth information on anti-seizure medications so you know what to ask your doctor. ...