Serum steroid hormones and pituitary function in female epileptic patients during carbamazepine therapy.

abstract：PURPOSE:To present new information on the semiology and short-term evolution of seizures associated with primary brain tumors (PBTs) in a prospective study. METHODS:This study is a section of the PERNO study--Project of Emilia Romagna Region on Neuro-Oncology, the main aim of which is to collect prospectively all case...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Michelucci R,Pasini E,Meletti S,Fallica E,Rizzi R,Florindo I,Chiari A,Monetti C,Cremonini AM,Forlivesi S,Albani F,Baruzzi A,PERNO Study Group.

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Use of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) in pregnant women with epilepsy (WWE) is associated with an increased risk of major congenital malformations (MCM). Previous studies have suggested that WWE who had a malformation in their index pregnancy were at an increased risk of recurrence in future pregnancies. We aimed to asses...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Begum S,Sarma SP,Thomas SV

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Potentially pathogenic autoantibodies are found increasingly in adults with seizure disorders, including focal seizures and those of unknown cause. In this study, we investigated a cohort of children with new-onset seizures to see whether there were autoantibodies and the relationship to any specific seizure or...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Suleiman J,Wright S,Gill D,Brilot F,Waters P,Peacock K,Procopis P,Nibber A,Vincent A,Dale RC,Lang B

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study sought to determine the frequency and clinical significance of nonhabitual seizures in 101 consecutive patients undergoing presurgical intracranial electroencephalography intracranial (icEEG) recording. We compared clinical data, recording details, and postsurgical outcome in patients with nonhabitual seizu...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Kovac S,Rodionov R,Chinnasami S,Wehner T,Scott CA,McEvoy AW,Miserocchi A,Diehl B

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between diurnal fluctuations in free (unbound) and total plasma carbamazepine levels and the appearance of intermittent side effects was investigated in nine epileptic patients receiving chronic therapy with carbamazepine, alone or in combination with phenobarbital. On a three-times-daily or four-time...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Riva R,Albani F,Ambrosetto G,Contin M,Cortelli P,Perucca E,Baruzzi A

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to develop a quantitative framework to estimate the likelihood of multifocal epilepsy based on the number of unifocal seizures observed in the epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU). METHODS:Patient records from the EMU at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) from 2012 to 2014 were asse...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Struck AF,Cole AJ,Cash SS,Westover MB

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the efficacy of vigabatrin (VGB) in the treatment of infantile spasms (ISs) associated with Down syndrome (DS) and to assess the feasibility of early discontinuation to reduce the possible retinal toxicity. METHODS:Five children with ISs with DS were treated with vigabatrin as first-line monotherap...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Nabbout R,Melki I,Gerbaka B,Dulac O,Akatcherian C

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The objective of this study was the isobolographic evaluation of the interactions between the novel antiepileptic drug (AED) gabapentin (GBP) and a number of other AEDs against electroconvulsion-induced convulsions in mice. METHODS:Electroconvulsions were produced by means of an alternating current (ear-clip e...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Borowicz KK,Swiader M,Luszczki J,Czuczwar SJ

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess the presence, extent, and clinical correlates of quantitative MR volumetric abnormalities in ipsilateral and contralateral hippocampus, and temporal and extratemporal lobe regions in unilateral temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). METHODS:In total, 34 subjects with unilateral left (n = 15) or right (n = 19)...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Seidenberg M,Kelly KG,Parrish J,Geary E,Dow C,Rutecki P,Hermann B

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the effects of phenytoin (PHT) overdosage on ballistic arm abduction movements in nine epileptic patients receiving long-term PHT treatment. During the overdosage period, all but one showed clinical abnormalities referable to impaired cerebellar function; one also had slowness of movement. Ballistic moveme...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Benvenuti F,Bandinelli S,Mencarelli MA,Lunardelli ML,Campostrini R,Zaccara G,Pantaleo T

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chronic epileptic syndrome induced by injecting tetanus toxin into rat hippocampus causes functional changes that essentially are permanent, outlasting the period of active seizures by at least 1 year. These long-term changes have been characterized by an impaired performance on a range of behavioral tasks, which ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Francis PT,Lowe SL,Bowen DM,Jefferys JG

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Patients with suspected mesial temporal lobe (MTL) epilepsy typically undergo inpatient video-electroencephalography (EEG) monitoring with scalp and/or intracranial electrodes for 1 to 2 weeks to localize and lateralize the seizure focus or foci. Chronic ambulatory electrocorticography (ECoG) in patients with...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： King-Stephens D,Mirro E,Weber PB,Laxer KD,Van Ness PC,Salanova V,Spencer DC,Heck CN,Goldman A,Jobst B,Shields DC,Bergey GK,Eisenschenk S,Worrell GA,Rossi MA,Gross RE,Cole AJ,Sperling MR,Nair DR,Gwinn RP,Park YD,

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In the presurgical evaluation of children and juvenile patients with refractory focal epilepsy, the main challenge is to localize the point of seizure onset as precisely as possible. We compared results of the conventional electroencephalography-functional magnetic resonance imaging (EEG-fMRI) analysis with tho...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Elshoff L,Groening K,Grouiller F,Wiegand G,Wolff S,Michel C,Stephani U,Siniatchkin M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A need for prevalence information emphasizing racial differences prompted a door-to-door survey of all residents of Copiah County, Mississippi. The fieldwork involved a complete census and an extensive screening questionnaire inquiring about diagnoses, signs, and symptoms of neurologic disease. Residents who lived in ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Haerer AF,Anderson DW,Schoenberg BS

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbamazepine (CBZ) selectively suppressed kindled convulsions, whereas ethosuximide (ESM) suppressed spike-wave activity accompanying systemic penicillin epilepsy in cats. Evoked potential data indicated that CBZ acted at the thalamic level, whereas ESM acted at cortex. Reduction of seizures and thalamic or cortical ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Shouse MN,Stroh PJ,Vreeken T

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Children with rolandic spikes may or may not have seizures, ranging from benign rolandic epilepsy to severe atypical rolandic epilepsy. We investigated whether ripples (80-250 Hz), superimposed on rolandic spikes in surface electroencephalography (EEG), can differentiate between different entities. METHODS:I...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： van Klink NE,van 't Klooster MA,Leijten FS,Jacobs J,Braun KP,Zijlmans M

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some investigators argue that treating epilepsy with several antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) simultaneously (polytherapy) may give rise to more adverse effects than monotherapy, but this argument lacks supporting quantitative data. To reexamine this issue, we recruited a cohort of patients from the outpatients of the Speci...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Lammers MW,Hekster YA,Keyser A,Meinardi H,Renier WO,van Lier H

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Neurosurgery is an effective therapy for selected individuals with medically refractory temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). De novo psychopathology may complicate the postsurgical outcome. Our aims were to identify predictors of de novo psychiatric and seizure outcome following TLE surgery. METHODS:Medical records o...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Cleary RA,Thompson PJ,Fox Z,Foong J

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vagus is a mixed nerve carrying somatic and visceral afferents and efferents. The majority of vagal nerve fibers are visceral afferents and have a wide distribution throughout the central nervous system (CNS) either monosynaptically or via the nucleus of the solitary tract. Besides activation of well-defined refle...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Rutecki P

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite over 80 years of use, the ketogenic diet (KD) has never been tested in a blinded manner. Twenty children with intractable Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) were fasted 36 h and then randomized to receive the classic KD in conjunction with a solution containing either 60 g/day of glucose or saccharin. Parents and p...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Freeman JM,Vining EP,Kossoff EH,Pyzik PL,Ye X,Goodman SN

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy is a disease of recurrent seizures that can be associated with a wide variety of acquired and developmental brain lesions. Current medications for patients with epilepsy can suppress seizures; they do not cure or modify the underlying disease process. On the other hand, surgical removal of focal brain regions...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Mittal S,Shah AK,Barkmeier DT,Loeb JA

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To identify the short-term outcome of patients who had seizures while watching an animated cartoon TV program, "Pocket Monster," on December 16, 1997. METHODS:One and three years after the incident, questionnaires were sent to physicians of each patient about seizure recurrence, EEGs, and medication. RESULTS:...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Ishiguro Y,Takada H,Watanabe K,Okumura A,Aso K,Ishikawa T

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the potential pharmacokinetic interactions between topiramate (TPM) and phenytoin (PHT) in patients with epilepsy by studying their pharmacokinetics (PK) after monotherapy and concomitant TPM/PHT treatment. METHODS:Twelve patients with epilepsy stabilized on PHT monotherapy were enrolled in this st...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Sachdeo RC,Sachdeo SK,Levy RH,Streeter AJ,Bishop FE,Kunze KL,Mather GG,Roskos LK,Shen DD,Thummel KE,Trager WF,Curtin CR,Doose DR,Gisclon LG,Bialer M

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty therapy-resistant epileptic patients entered a double-blind, randomized, two-period, cross-over trial comparing progabide (19.3-36 mg/kg/day) and placebo as add-on drugs to standard therapy. Each period lasted 6 weeks with a gradual crossover during 4 days. Five patients were dropped because of reasons unrelate...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Martínez-Lage JM,Bossi L,Morales G,Martínez Vila E,Orofiamma B,Viteri C

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[3H]Nimodipine and high-affinity [125I]omega-conotoxin GVIA (CgTX) binding were investigated in membranes from rat cerebral cortex, cerebellum, and hippocampus after electrically and chemically induced seizures. Animals were decapitated 30 min after a single electroconvulsive shock (ECS) or lidocaine-induced seizure a...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Gleiter CH,Cain CJ,Weiss SR,Post RM,Marangos PJ

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed positron emission tomography (PET) with [11C]deuterium-deprenyl in 9 patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) undergoing evaluation for possible epilepsy surgery. Seven patients had unilateral and 2 had bilateral mesiotemporal epileptic foci based on the preoperative investigation including ictal EEG di...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Kumlien E,Bergström M,Lilja A,Andersson J,Szekeres V,Westerberg CE,Westerberg G,Antoni G,Långström B

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally, control of seizures in patients with epilepsy is viewed as the most important clinical outcome. Yet, current antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) do not always achieve this. Around 30-40% of patients remain uncontrolled despite pharmacological intervention. Poor tolerability of AEDs is a large part of the problem...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Bazil CW

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steady-state plasma antiepileptic drug (AED) concentrations were measured at intervals throughout pregnancy and during the postnatal period in 105 women who underwent 134 pregnancies. Phenytoin (PHT) dosage had to be increased in 85% of pregnancies in which the drug was received, carbamazepine (CBZ) dosage in 70%, and...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Lander CM,Eadie MJ

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Ictal single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) may help localize the seizure-onset zone (SOZ) by detecting changes in regional cerebral blood flow induced by epileptic discharges. This imaging method also reveals hyperperfusions in areas of seizure propagation, including the hemisphere contralateral t...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Huberfeld G,Habert MO,Clemenceau S,Maksud P,Baulac M,Adam C

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Dravet syndrome (DS) or severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy is an intractable epileptic encephalopathy of early childhood that is caused by a mutation in the SCN1A gene in most patients. The aim of this study was to identify a syndrome-specific epileptic network underlying interictal epileptiform discharges (I...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Moehring J,von Spiczak S,Moeller F,Helbig I,Wolff S,Jansen O,Muhle H,Boor R,Stephani U,Siniatchkin M

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00