Oral health and dental treatment needs in Nigerian patients with epilepsy.

abstract：:Cortical malformations are highly epileptogenic lesions associated with complex, unanticipated, and often aberrant electrophysiologic and functional relationships. These relationships are inextricably linked to widespread cortical networks subserving eloquent functions, particularly language and motor ability. Cytomeg...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Duchowny M

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Epilepsy is a chronic disorder, but seizure recordings are usually obtained in the acute setting. The chronic behavior of seizures and the interictal bursts that sometimes initiate them is unknown. We investigate the variability of these electrographic patterns over an extended period of time using chronic in...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Ung H,Davis KA,Wulsin D,Wagenaar J,Fox E,McDonnell JJ,Patterson N,Vite CH,Worrell G,Litt B

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Pathogenic variants of KCNQ2, which encode a potassium channel subunit, cause either benign (familial) neonatal epilepsy-B(F)NE)-or KCNQ2 encephalopathy (KCNQ2 DEE). We examined the characteristics of KCNQ2 variants. METHODS:KCNQ2 pathogenic variants were collected from in-house data and two large disease da...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Goto A,Ishii A,Shibata M,Ihara Y,Cooper EC,Hirose S

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Assumptions regarding the benefits of seizure control after pediatric epilepsy surgery for cognitive, psychosocial, and family function were explored in a prospective study of 51 children with intractable epilepsy. METHODS:Thirty children who underwent surgery were studied before and 1 year after surgery, and ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Smith ML,Elliott IM,Lach L

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:A survey was made of a network of 14 epilepsy centers in Italy to assess whether integrated diagnosis and treatment monitoring led to a more precise syndromic classification of the patients and a better response to treatment. METHODS:Data on the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy and the degree of seizure con...

journal_title：Epilepsia

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更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since it was originally described nearly 70 years ago, insular epilepsy has been increasingly recognized and may explain failures after apparently well-planned operations. We review the history of awareness of the phenomenon, techniques for its assessment, and its surgical management. Insular epilepsy can mimic featur...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Laoprasert P,Ojemann JG,Handler MH

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Whether magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is informative in febrile seizures (FS) is unknown. We undertook a study to determine the frequency of MRI-detected brain abnormalities and to evaluate their association with FS type and with specific features of complex FS. METHODS:A prospective cohort study, from 19...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Hesdorffer DC,Chan S,Tian H,Allen Hauser W,Dayan P,Leary LD,Hinton VJ

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of surgical treatment of intractable epilepsy seizures in a group of patients investigated with the intracarotid amobarbital-pentylenetetrazol EEG test were analyzed. This diagnostic test, originally designed to distinguish a mechanism of primary from that of secondary bilateral synchrony in the EEG was al...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Gloor P,Rasmussen T,Altuzarra A,Garretson H

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To systematically review the methodology and use of neuropsychological tests in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) in patients with epilepsy. METHODS:Trial reports were found by searching Medline 1966-1996 and searching through journals by hand. Inclusion and exclusion criteria w...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Cochrane HC,Marson AG,Baker GA,Chadwick DW

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Status epilepticus (SE) is a medical emergency associated with a high mortality. Clinical series have suggested that mortality after SE has decreased. No studies have systematically examined trends in incidence, mortality, and case fatality after SE in a well-defined population. METHODS:All first episodes of S...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Logroscino G,Hesdorffer DC,Cascino G,Annegers JF,Hauser WA

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The use of primary health care personnel to identify cases of epilepsy and initiate simple treatment protocols has been advocated as a solution to the numeric inadequacy and uneven distribution of medical manpower available for the management of epilepsy in developing countries. This study sought to evaluate th...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Adamolekun B,Mielke JK,Ball DE

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the incidence, duration, risk factors for, and clinical correlates of postictal generalized electroencephalography (EEG) suppression (PGES), and to further delineate the significance of PGES in the pathogenesis of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). METHODS:We retrospectively reviewed the...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Tao JX,Yung I,Lee A,Rose S,Jacobsen J,Ebersole JS

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The routine EEG study may prove inadequate in selected patients with recurrent and unprovoked seizures. Video-EEG monitoring is an important diagnostic innovation that may be used to confirm the diagnosis of a seizure disorder and classify seizure type. The methodologies and clinical applications of video-EEG monitori...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Cascino GD

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporal lobe epilepsy patients (n = 48) and healthy controls (n = 69) underwent structured psychiatric interview at baseline and 4 years later to characterize the course of DSM-IV Axis I disorders. Adjusting for the influence of prior psychiatric history, epilepsy subjects exhibit significantly greater risk of interv...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Jones JE,Bell B,Fine J,Rutecki P,Seidenberg M,Hermann B

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an early infantile patient characterized by intractable hyponatremia, progressive megalencephaly, and epileptic seizures with an EEG pattern that alternated between interictal low-voltage background and ictal burst activity. Repeatedly all the abnormal findings improved in a lidocaine-dependent manner. Given...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Sawaishi Y,Yano T,Enoki M,Takada G

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of biochemical signs of vitamin D deficiency and the effects of vitamin D supplementation were investigated in 83 children and 95 adults on chronic antiepileptic therapy and 40 mentally retarded controls living under comparable conditions. Low 25-hydroxyvitamin D and serum calcium, and elevated immunorea...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Offermann G,Pinto V,Kruse R

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ACC-9653, the disodium phosphate ester of 3-hydroxymethyl-5,5-diphenylhydantoin, is a prodrug of phenytoin with advantageous physicochemical properties. ACC-9653 is rapidly converted enzymatically to phenytoin in vivo. ACC-9653 and phenytoin sodium have equivalent anticonvulsant activity against seizures induced by ma...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Smith RD,Brown BS,Maher RW,Matier WL

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ketogenic diet (KD) is an effective treatment for epilepsy, but its mechanisms of action are poorly understood. We investigated the hypothesis that the KD inhibits mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway signaling. The expression of pS6 and pAkt, markers of mTOR pathway activation, was reduced in hippocampus ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： McDaniel SS,Rensing NR,Thio LL,Yamada KA,Wong M

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the ability of functional MRI (fMRI) to predict postoperative language decline compared to direct cortical stimulation (DCS) in epilepsy surgery patients. METHODS:In this prospective case series, 17 patients with drug-resistant epilepsy had intracranial monitoring and resection from 2012 to 2016 wi...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Rolinski R,Austermuehle A,Wiggs E,Agrawal S,Sepeta LN,Gaillard WD,Zaghloul KA,Inati SK,Theodore WH

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The incidence of status epilepticus (SE) in Asian children, including Japanese, has not been reported. METHODS:In 2003, we performed an epidemiological study of SE on Japanese children (31 days or older to <15 years of age) in Okayama City by ascertaining all lifetime first episodes of SE. RESULTS:Thirty-s...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Nishiyama I,Ohtsuka Y,Tsuda T,Inoue H,Kunitomi T,Shiraga H,Kimura T,Fujimoto K

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, there are 4 published scales evaluating status epilepticus (SE) prognosis: the Status Epilepticus Severity Score (STESS), the Epidemiology-based Mortality score in Status Epilepticus (EMSE), the modified STESS (mSTESS), and the Encephalitis Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus Diazepam Resistence Imaging Trache...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Yuan F,Gao Q,Jiang W

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No reports of the Washington Psychosocial Seizure Inventory (WPSI) have yet been presented from Asian countries in detail. We performed a multiinstitutional study of this test in 652 Japanese subjects. The mean value of the Lie Scale was high, and only one third of our subjects were under the limit of the original cri...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Hosokawa K,Kugoh T,Mino S

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) after focal status epilepticus has demonstrated focal alterations of the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) in the epileptogenic zone. We hypothesized that localized dynamic alterations of brain diffusion during the immediate postictal state will be detectab...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Hufnagel A,Weber J,Marks S,Ludwig T,De Greiff A,Leonhardt G,Widmann G,Stolke D,Forsting M

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：:The interictal EEG provides information that aids in diagnosis and management of epilepsy. One must remember that the EEG is merely a tool, and its usefulness depends largely upon the skill of the individual who wields it. Like all diagnostic tests, it has significant limitations and cannot substitute for a careful hi...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Pillai J,Sperling MR

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To trace the concept that the cerebral cortex is the site of epileptogenesis before Hughlings Jackson published the idea in 1870 in the paper "A study of convulsions" which marks the beginning of modern epileptology. METHOD:Perusal of 19th century English language medical literature. RESULT:The existence of corti...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Eadie MJ

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Clobazam (CLB) has an important antiepileptic effect and is less expensive than the new antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), but still has not been considered as first-line drug in the treatment of epilepsy. We evaluated the efficacy of CLB as add-on therapy in patients with refractory partial epilepsy. METHODS:This wa...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Montenegro MA,Cendes F,Noronha AL,Mory SB,Carvalho MI,Marques LH,Guerreiro CA

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six barbiturates with diverse time-action characteristics--thiopental, pentobarbital, butabarbital, phenobarbital, diphenylbarbiturate, and barbital--were evaluated for "anticonvulsant" and "neurotoxic" effects. For the former, the MES test, clonic seizures induced by pentylenetetrazol, 90 mg/kg, s.c., and maximal sei...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Raines A,Blake GJ,Richardson B,Gilbert MB

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess seizure and cognitive outcomes and their predictors in children (<16 years at surgery) and adults undergoing temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) surgery in eight Italian centers. METHODS:This is a retrospective multicenter study. We performed a descriptive analysis and subsequently carried out multivariab...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Barba C,Cossu M,Guerrini R,Di Gennaro G,Villani F,De Palma L,Grisotto L,Consales A,Battaglia D,Zamponi N,d'Orio P,Revay M,Rizzi M,Casciato S,Esposito V,Quarato PP,Di Giacomo R,Didato G,Pastori C,Pavia GC,Pellacani

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Epileptic spasms are seizures that occur predominantly in children and are characterized by clusters of brief axial movements. Epileptic spasms may occur in the context of a variety of syndromes. Previous research has found that epileptic spasms occur in a sleep/wake and diurnal rhythm. The purpose of this stud...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Ramgopal S,Shah A,Zarowski M,Vendrame M,Gregas M,Alexopoulos AV,Loddenkemper T,Kothare SV

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00