The new treatment offers a new therapeutic strategy for patients whose epilepsy cannot be treated effectively by medications or resective surgery.
In a large cohort of patients, researchers analyzed the longitudinal outcomes and predictors of seizure outcomes after frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) surgery, the second most common focal resective surgery for drug-resistant epilepsy.
Pediatric Epilepsy
Onset in infancy and developmental delay is associated with an especially high risk, regardless of epilepsy type.
Pediatric Epilepsy
Treatment was found to be effective in more than half of the children diagnosed with generalized epilepsy and focal epilepsy.
A type of cell in the brain called “atypical astrocyte” may increase following trauma, causing epilepsy following repeated, mild TBI, according to a study by Dr. Oleskii Shandra and Dr. Stefanie Robel.
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Vascular and genetic disorders may predispose to both seizures and abnormalities of cardiac electrophysiology. Repeated and uncontrolled seizures may favor potentially life-threatening arrhythmias.
Ketogenic Diet
This Summer 2019 issue of the International League Against Epilepsy Epigraph discusses the gut-brain axis, the ketogenic diet and the connection between microbiota and seizure susceptibility
FINTEPLA for the treatment of LGS has previously been designated as an orphan drug by both the FDA and the European Medicines Agency.
