Surgical treatment for patients with intractable seizures.(Tips from Other...

American Family Physician;  February 1, 1997 ;     386 words ......common. One-half of patients with intractable epilepsy may be candidates for surgical treatment...underwent surgery for treatment of intractable epilepsy. The medical records of 291 consecutive...underwent surgical treatment of intractable epilepsy at the Mayo Clinic between 1972...

The Family Experience of "Sudden Health": The Case of Intractable Epilepsy

Family Process;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......elects to have corrective surgery for intractable epilepsy. Families were interviewed pre...have corrective surgery for chronic intractable epilepsy. In this article, we report findings...have epilepsy, over 331,000 have intractable epilepsy that cannot be controlled through...

Levetiracetam in intractable childhood onset epilepsy

Journal of Pediatric Neurology;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......experience in treating children with intractable epilepsy. Prospective, open label, add on...treating consecutive children with intractable epilepsy (defined as recurrent seizures after...Levetiracetam, treatment, child, intractable, epilepsy, seizure 1. Introduction ...

Surgery for epilepsy outshines medication.(surgery for intractable...

Science News;  August 4, 2001 ;     586 words ......have reached such a state, known as intractable epilepsy. The patients usually endure this...randomly assigned 40 patients with intractable epilepsy to undergo surgery and continue...comparing surgery with medication for intractable epilepsy, says neurologist Jerome Engel Jr...

Family win lapland Santa visit

Lincolnshire Echo;  December 1, 2007 ;     174 words ......anyone. Eloise was born with cortical dysplasia - a flat smooth spot on the brain that causes intractable epilepsy. Intractable epilepsy causes continuous seizures and is not treatable with medication. "It was just devastating because...

Invited Comments

Neurology India;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......anterior temporal lobectomy for intractable epilepsy: A multivariate study. Neurology...Turnbull J, et al. Ganglioglioma and intractable epilepsy: Clinical and neuropsychologic features...Barnett GH, Turnbull J. Chronic intractable epilepsy as the only symptom of primary brain...

Withholding aggressive seizure treatment from a child with severe...

Journal of Neuroscience Nursing;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Abstract: A child with severe intractable epilepsy, profound neurological impairment...treatment from a child with severe intractable epilepsy and transition to a palliative care...are reviewed. ********** Severe intractable epilepsy, accompanied by profound neurological...

Santa awaits special family after big win

Lincolnshire Echo;  December 1, 2007 ;     371 words ......anyone. Eloise was born with cortical dysplasia - a flat smooth spot on the brain that causes intractable epilepsy. Intractable epilepsy causes continuous seizures and is not treatable with medication. Mrs Needham said both her and...

Reasons for failure of the ketogenic diet *.(Statistical Data Included)

Journal of Neuroscience Nursing;  December 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......DeVivo, 1997; Vining et al., 1998). Intractable epilepsy can have a negative impact on a...months (mean age 5.3 years) with intractable epilepsy of various types were admitted to...referred to our center for treatment of intractable epilepsy. If the ketogenic diet was considered...

Epilepsy Surgery Successful for Alleviating Seizures Over the Long Term.

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  April 4, 2006 ;     700+ words ......that 81 percent of patients with intractable epilepsy become totally or nearly seizure-fr...Americans. Thirty to 40 percent have intractable epilepsy: Medications alone do not control...anticonvulsants and are still suffering from intractable epilepsy prior to surgery. To conduct ...

The gift of hope

Chicago Sun-Times;  May 9, 1999 ;     596 words ......illness was more complicated. Susan learned that Lauren had intractable epilepsy, a type of epilepsy that cannot be well controlled. On...National Institutes for Health to expand research on intractable epilepsy. In no small part because of Susan's diligence, federal...

Use of zonisamide in twelve patients with intractable seizures refractory...

Journal of Pediatric Neurology;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......evaluate the effects of zonisamide on intractable epilepsy in a primarily pediatric population...adjunctive zonisamide therapy on intractable epilepsy in a primarily pediatric population...July 2003 who were diagnosed with intractable epilepsy unresponsive to polypharmacy regimens...

FISCAL 2006 APPROPRIATIONS : LABOR, HHS AND EDUCATION:JAMES C. SCHNEIDER

Congressional Testimony;  April 19, 2005 ;     700+ words ......family and my twenty year old daughter Julie who has intractable epilepsy. I tell this story both as a father and a physician who...devastating seizures. We felt ``lucky`` because so many with intractable epilepsy aren`t ``lucky`` enough to be surgical candidates. Julie...

Vigabatrin in pediatric patients with refractory epilepsy

The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......seizure outcome in patients with intractable epilepsy. We studied the efficacy and side...laboratory to screen patients with intractable epilepsy who were on VGB either alone or...in partial seizures in childhood intractable epilepsy. Patients should be closely monitored...

Neuropathological spectrum of lesions associated with intractable...

Neurology India;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......have been significantly smaller. Surgical management of intractable epilepsy is currently restricted to few centres in India, which...profileface=-Italic; A total of 153 consecutive chronic intractable epilepsy cases that were surgically treated during 1995-2004 were...