Researchers found that their method was as successful as implanted electrodes at finding the location and extent of the seizure source and would have produced similar surgical outcomes.
This nationwide observational study found no evidence that fosphenytoin provides higher efficacy or safety than phenytoin for treatment of status epilepticus in adults after diazepam.
Limited evidence from 5 uncontrolled studies involving a limited number of patients suggests that IV BRV may be efficacious and safe in terminating seizures among patients with SE or refractory SE.
Pediatric Epilepsy
According to the researchers, therapeutic hypothermia was found to be “safe for use in pediatric patients with refractory status epilepticus or super-refractory status epilepticus
The duration of focal seizures was prolonged with increasing age of the patients and was significantly shortened by secondary spread.
The assay of saliva samples provides a valuable alternative to the use of blood samples for therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM), at least for certain categories of patients.
Psychoeducational interventions appear to have had positive results in Argentinian patients with PNES.
According to available literature, the global clinic-based lifetime prevalence of epilepsy in individuals with Down syndrome ranged from 1.6% to 23.1%, with epileptic spasms representing 6.7% to 66.7% of these cases.
This is the first study to provide objective evidence for a considerable negative effect of ZNS treatment on executive function, according to study authors.
