Fertility Treatment and Childhood Epilepsy

Epilepsy in Childhood: Classification and Treatment.

Drug treatment of epilepsy in childhood.

The need to treat a fit depends in part on whether or not there is evidence that major fits are themselves potentially damaging. Though the matter is unresolved, our patients should be given the benefit of any doubt, and all fits which have gone on long enough for an anxious parent to obtain the help of a doctor should be treated. These will have rarely lasted less than 1520 minutes. The aim of...

Targeted Treatment in Childhood Epilepsy Syndromes.

OPINION STATEMENT The mainstay of treatment of epilepsy has been antiepileptic drugs; however, despite the emergence of new agents, a consistent proportion remain drug-resistant. Newer AEDs show promise. However, as it becomes clear that the epilepsies are a group of diseases rather than a single disorder the prospect of targeted treatment in some may become a reality.

Levetiracetam in the treatment of childhood epilepsy

Epilepsy is a common pediatric neurologic disorder that is difficult to manage in a substantial portion of children. Levetiracetam (LEV) is a novel antiepileptic drug (AED) that has recently been approved as add-on treatment for various seizure types in epilepsy populations that include children: for refractory partial seizures in epilepsy patients >/=4 years old, for myoclonic seizures in juve...

Lamotrigine treatment in childhood drug resistant epilepsy.

The clinical response to lamotrigine has been evaluated in a group of 63 drug resistant epileptic children in an open add-on trial. A negative response was observed in 30 subjects. In 11 patients, after an initial improvement lasting a mean period of 8 months, seizures recurred with the same frequency present before the beginning of the treatment. Twenty-two patients responded to lamotrigine tr...