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Predictors of intractable childhood epilepsy.
OBJECTIVE To determine the prognosis of seizures in epileptic children and identify early predictors of intractable childhood epilepsy. STUDY DESIGN Case-control study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY The Epilepsy Centre of the Children's Hospital Lahore, from February 2005 to April 2007. PATIENTS AND METHODS All children (aged 1 month to 16 years) with idiopathic or cryptogenic epilepsy who ...
متن کاملEarly clinical predictors of intractable epilepsy in childhood.
AIM In this retrospective study, we evaluated the clinical responses to antiepileptic drug (AED) therapy in pediatric epilepsy patients treated at a single center. MATERIALS AND METHODS We identified 28 children with intractable epilepsy and 213 patients with drug-responsive epilepsy. RESULTS Univariate analysis showed that age at onset, high (daily) initial seizure frequency, infantile spa...
متن کاملDefinition of intractable epilepsy.
Defining intractable epilepsy is essential not only to identify up to 40% of patients refractory to pharmacological management, but also to facilitate selection and comparison of such patients for research purposes. The ideal definition still eludes us. Multiple factors including number of antiepileptic drug (AED) failures, seizure frequency and duration of unresponsiveness, etiology, and epile...
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CONTEXT Hemispherotomy is a surgical procedure for hemispheric disconnection. It is a technically demanding surgery. Our experience is presented here. AIMS To validate and compare the two techniques for hemispherotomy performed in patients with intractable epilepsies. SETTINGS AND DESIGN A retrospective study 2001-March 2007: Nineteen cases of hemispherotomies from a total of 462 cases oper...
متن کاملIntractable Epilepsy in Children
Corresponding Author: J. Akhondian MD Ghaem Medical Center,Mashad,Iran Tel: +98 511 8012469 Fax: +98 511 8417451 Email: [email protected] Abstract Objective Epilepsy is a common disorder affecting approximately 1% of the population. It is estimated that about 2030% of the patients become refractory to proper medical therapies. Such cases are often termed intractable. Intractable epilepsy (I...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Neurology Briefs
سال: 1996
ISSN: 2166-6482,1043-3155
DOI: 10.15844/pedneurbriefs-10-3-12