Epilepsyis a chronicdisorderthat means the same thing asseizure disorders. It’s known for its unpredictable and unprovoked seizures. It comes in a wide range of types and varies from person to person. The wordepilepsyitself doesn’t indicate anything about the cause or severity of someone’s ...
Seizures are the hallmark of epilepsy, but different types of seizures can look very different. Learn what causes epilepsy and how it is treated.
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What is intractable epilepsy, and when (if ever) does it remit with medical treatment? 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 23 作者: CW Bazil 摘要: Berg AT, Levy SR, Testa FM, D'Souza R: Remission of epilepsy after two drug failures in children: a prospective study. Ann Neurol 2009,...
Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP): What do patients think? •SUDEP is a major cause of mortality in patients with epilepsy.•However, adult patients' perceptions of SUDEP have not been previously published.•... Z Xu,S Ayyappan,U Seneviratne - 《Epilepsy & Behavior》 被引量:...
By far the most research in epilepsy-in terms of drug\ntreatment, surgery, and prognosis-concerns the approximately\n40% of patients who are "intractable," "drug\nresistant," or "refractory." The definition of these terms is\nsubject to some controversy, which has contributed to\nuncertainty...
I have had epilepsy since I was 3. I have since found that food allergies trigger my seizures. I do not know if others with epilepsy have food allergies, which they are unaware of, that are triggering their seizures. I have also found that a healthy diet of fruits, vegetables, grains ...
Catamenial epilepsy (CE), also known as menstrual seizures, is linked to a woman's menstrual cycle and related hormone levels in the body. Women with CE often
A friend of mine has epilepsy as a result of a brain injury he received as a child. It was a car accident that he survived but he experienced trauma to part of his brain. As a result they put him on seizure medication as part of his epilepsy treatment. He said that he does fine ...
Sudden death is 20 to 40 times more common in people with epilepsy compared with the general population.2, 3, 4, 5 Between 8% and 17% of deaths in people with epilepsy are SUDEP (most often in people aged 20–40 years).6 The incidence of SUDEP increases 100-fold from 0.09 per 1000...