Choice of Antiepileptic Drugs in Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy: UAE Experience
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Choice of Antiepileptic Drugs in Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy: UAE Experience
We retrospectively reviewed the electroencephalogram (EEG) reports of patients at our EEG lab from the years 2005-2010 to identify patients referred from the epilepsy clinic, with a confirmed diagnosis of idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) by EEG criteria. We sought to report our experience in UAE of how often patients with IGE are placed on nonspecific antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) before bein...
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عنوان ژورنال: Epilepsy Research and Treatment
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2090-1348,2090-1356
DOI: 10.1155/2015/184928