background: epilepsy is defined as recurrent unprovoked febrile  seizures, which  cause  disability in patients.  this study  aims  to  assess  the  health-related  quality-of-life (qol) in epileptic patients in fars province, southern  iran. methods: one-hundred epileptic  patients, above 18 years, referred to shiraz university of medical sciences affiliated clinics, were included. the qol of ...

background: we evaluated the diagnostic value of electroencephalography (eeg), video-eeg monitoring (vem) and magnetic resonance imaging (mri) of the brain with epilepsy protocol in patients with complex partial epilepsy. methods: forty-two consecutive patients underwent complete neurological examination, eeg, and mri with a modified epilepsy protocol. a subset of these patients (n = 29) also u...

objective 1-3% of the population suffer from epilepsy. up to 30% of them develop refractory epilepsy and their seizures occur more than once per month despite receiving at least 2 first line antiepileptic drugs. in  this group, more efficacious antiepileptics are needed. this study was undertaken to evaluate the efficacy and safety of oxcarbazepine as an adjunction therapy in children with refr...

Twelve cases with circling seizures are presented with their clinical, electroencephalographic and radiological findings. Four patients had symptomatic partial epilepsy, five had cryptogenic partial epilepsy, and the remaining three had idiopathic generalized epilepsy. Three of the patients with symptomatic partial epilepsy had frontal lesion, and one had parito-occipital lesion. Turning direct...

Although treated properly for epilepsy, a number of epileptic children have intractable seizures and about 5-10 per cent of them do not respond to anti -epileptic drugs. In the years 1986-1996 about 10,000 epileptic patients were treated in the Children's Medical Center in Tehran. A retrospective study of their medical records revealed that 41 of them had intractable seizures. I Of these 4...

although treated properly for epilepsy, a number of epileptic children have intractable seizures and about 5-10 per cent of them do not respond to anti -epileptic drugs. in the years 1986-1996 about 10,000 epileptic patients were treated in the children's medical center in tehran. a retrospective study of their medical records revealed that 41 of them had intractable seizures. i of these 4...