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Is the Wada test necessary prior to epilepsy surgery?
The Wada test was initially used to identify the hemisphere of language dominance prior to epilepsy surgery, but was subsequently applied to identify patients at risk of amnesia after temporal resection. The Wada test was later found useful in lateralizing the epileptogenic zone, predicting postoperative memory function, and predicting postoperative seizure control. The Wada test became more wi...
متن کاملThe Wada test with propofol in a patient with epilepsy.
The usual drug used in the Wada test is amobarbital, but it is not available in Brazil. Propofol was already used by Bazin et al. in 1998, and in their report the test resulted good in the absence of any adverse effect. We report the use of propofol as the anesthetic for the Wada test. The test was carried out in a 26 years old woman with temporal medial lobe epilepsy refractory to medical trea...
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The interventionist needs precise information about the tissue supplied by an artery that is to be embolized. With intracranial arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), Amytal* can be used to challenge cerebral arteries and their branches [1]. Cranial nerves are physiologically and histologically like peripheral nerves, so external carotid artery branch embolization can be controlled by challenge wi...
متن کاملAn update on determination of language dominance in screening for epilepsy surgery: the Wada test and newer noninvasive alternatives.
The intracarotid amobarbital procedure or Wada test has been the gold standard for lateralization of language dominance before epilepsy surgery. It is based on deactivation of language cortex with intracarotid anesthesia. However, it is an invasive test with risks and discomforts, and it also has limitations. There has been great interest in replacing the Wada test with a noninvasive procedure....
متن کاملBilateral Wada test: Amobarbital or propofol?
PURPOSE The Wada test is still the gold standard procedure to predict language and memory deficits before temporal lobe epilepsy surgery. As amobarbital was no longer available, our aim was to validate propofol as an alternative. METHOD We retrospectively studied 47 patients who underwent a bilateral intracarotid procedure, performed with amobarbital (18), or propofol (29), between 2000 and 2...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Turkish Epilepsi Society
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1300-7157
DOI: 10.5505/epilepsi.2012.63825