Epilepsy In the Elderly
Incidence of Epilepsy and Evaluation of Associated Disorders in Elderly People of Amirkola, North of Iran
... of epilepsy in the elderly in this area may be due to lower age onset of stroke, which is the common cause of epileptic seizures in older ...with epilepsy, and the incidence rate of this study is in ...
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Comparative effectiveness of levetiracetam, valproate and carbamazepine among elderly patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy: subgroup analysis of the randomized, unblinded KOMET study
... many elderly pa- tients were assigned to the CBZ stratum ...cific epilepsy population [38]. We challenge the term Epilepsy in the Elderly (EE), which refers to people older than 60 ...
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Clinical and Etiological Characteristics of Epilepsy in the Elderly: A Hospital-Based Study from a Tertiary Care Referral Center of Niamey, Niger.
... Our study has some limitations. First, as the study origi- nates from a single center, the generalization of our findings may be limited. Second, the retrospective nature of the study explains why some details were not ...
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Causal inference as an emerging statistical approach in neurology: an example for epilepsy in the elderly
... The elderly population faces an increasing number of cases of chronic neurological conditions, such as epilepsy and Alzheimer’s ...the elderly with epilepsy are commonly excluded from ...
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Clinical profile and outcome in elderly patients with epilepsy in a neurology tertiary care centre in eastern India
... on elderly patient with epilepsy in India, particularly in eastern ...in elderly; types of epilepsy common in this age group, underlying etiology; electroencephalography (EEG) and neuroimaging ...
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Psychiatric and medical admissions observed among elderly patients with new onset epilepsy
... by elderly VA patients, our examination of medical and psychiatric admissions found both considerable overlap between groups characterized by psychiatric and neurological conditions, and a large impact on ...
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Short duration of focal onset awareness and impaired awareness seizure are characteristic features of epilepsy in elderly patients
... the epilepsy group (Epi ...by elderly might lead to a missed ...in elderly patients who exhibited a loss of consciousness, neither the consciousness level nor the duration of symptoms could be used ...
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Zonisamide in the management of epilepsy in the elderly
... focal epilepsy, has been recently approved as monotherapy for the treatment of partial seizures in adults affected by newly diagnosed epilepsy in ...the elderly is still lacking as these patients are ...
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The causes of new-onset epilepsy and seizures in the elderly
... of epilepsy. Vascular malformations and cavernomas can cause epilepsy, but these are not common in the elderly or in younger patients without ...
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Review of topiramate for the treatment of epilepsy in elderly patients
... Appetite suppression and weight loss have been documented in patients treated with TPM for both epilepsy and psychiatric disorders. In a recent 1-year, open-label, flexible-dose clinical trial of 107 ...
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<p>HMGB1/CXCL12-Mediated Immunity and Th17 Cells Might Underlie Highly Suspected Autoimmune Epilepsy in Elderly Individuals</p>
... As a retrospective and preliminary study, there were several pitfalls that need further exploration. The relation- ship of the cytokines/chemokines and prognosis was not included because of the small sample size and the ...
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Diagnosis and Management of Epilepsy
... in elderly patients, AEDs that are effective in younger patients are usually effective in older pa- ...the elderly. Be- cause many elderly patients have comorbid disor- ders, such as depression, ...
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Epilepsy and chromosomal abnormalities
... [91]. Epilepsy in patients Fra-X syndrome was first reported in 1969 ...of epilepsy is reported from 13-14% to 41-44% ...childhood epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes, childhood epilepsy with ...
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Autoimmune seizures and epilepsy
... “autoimmune epilepsy,” yet has occurred with limited attention to the physiopathology of each disease and genuine propensity to develop ...to epilepsy is relatively small. The risk of epilepsy is ...
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Asystole in the epilepsy unit
... focal epilepsy, mainly temporal and especially with ictal spread to the left temporal or insular areas [10], have most frequently been associated with development of ...
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Tracking epilepsy and autism
... The prevalence of epilepsy in autism is extremely high (23% in this study). The seizures in autism are subtle, nocturnal, and infrequent. Although staring represents a complex partial seizure, the significance of ...
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Prognostic factors for epilepsy
... [202]. Epilepsy comes under the 1988 Road Traffic Act, but single seizures, which by definition do not constitute epilepsy, come under the domestic regulations (1999 Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) ...
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MINOR MOTOR EPILEPSY
... The extent of the mental defect in pa- tients with minor motor seizures certainly suggests that this type of seizure is associ- ated with severe organic brain damage in nearly every case[r] ...
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ABDOMINAL EPILEPSY IN CHILDHOOD
... ures during their period of freedom from bouts of recurrent abdominal pain had cx- perienced febrile seizures during infancy and had a ilistOry of seizures in their fami- lies; tile fami[r] ...
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PETIT MAL EPILEPSY
... seizures prior to any therapy, another 20 had convulsions before the onset of petit mal, and 1 developed his first grand mal attack within 10 days of stopping trimetha- dione therapy, th[r] ...
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