To Wean or Not to Wean, that is the Question; the Downside of Maintaining Antiepileptic Drugs after Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery

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Outcomes for difficult-to-wean subjects after cardiac surgery.

BACKGROUND The need for prolonged mechanical ventilation (PMV) after cardiac surgery is still a common problem. We hypothesized that subjects who required PMV after a single surgery (either coronary artery bypass grafting or valve surgery) would have better outcomes than those who had experienced both revascularization and valve surgery. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed the characteristics...

the student committee of sports medicine research center: to be independent or not to be? that is the question

Antiepileptic drugs and relapse after epilepsy surgery.

PURPOSE To evaluate whether the postoperative, antiepileptic drug (AED) regimen influences seizure recurrence after anterior temporal lobectomy when considering the putative mechanism of action and possible neuroprotective effects. METHODS This was a retrospective study. Patients who had an anterior temporal lobectomy for refractory epilepsy, whose preoperative MRI indicated mesial temporal s...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...