[HTML][HTML] The consequences of refractory epilepsy and its treatment

KD Laxer, E Trinka, LJ Hirsch, F Cendes, J Langfitt… - Epilepsy & behavior, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Seizures in some 30% to 40% of patients with epilepsy fail to respond to
antiepileptic drugs or other treatments. While much has been made of the risks of new drug …

Cerebral malaria: mechanisms of brain injury and strategies for improved neurocognitive outcome

R Idro, K Marsh, CC John, CRJ Newton - Pediatric research, 2010 - nature.com
Cerebral malaria is the most severe neurological complication of infection with Plasmodium
falciparum. With> 575,000 cases annually, children in sub-Saharan Africa are the most …

Prognostic, clinical and demographic features in SCN1A mutation-positive Dravet syndrome

A Brunklaus, R Ellis, E Reavey, GH Forbes, SM Zuberi - Brain, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Dravet syndrome is a severe infantile onset epileptic encephalopathy associated with
mutations in the sodium channel alpha 1 subunit gene SCN1A. To date no large studies …

Hippocampal sclerosis after febrile status epilepticus: the FEBSTAT study

DV Lewis, S Shinnar, DC Hesdorffer… - Annals of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Whether febrile status epilepticus (FSE) produces hippocampal sclerosis (HS) and
temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) has long been debated. Our objective is to determine whether …

Febrile seizures: an update

C Waruiru, R Appleton - Archives of Disease in childhood, 2004 - adc.bmj.com
This review focuses on the latest knowledge and understanding of febrile seizures and
outlines the more important issues in the management of children who present with an …

Voxel‐based morphometry of temporal lobe epilepsy: an introduction and review of the literature

SS Keller, N Roberts - Epilepsia, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
We review the applications and results of voxel‐based morphometry (VBM) studies that
have reported brain changes associated with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). A PubMed …

Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

WO Tatum IV - Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most common form of adult localization-related
epilepsy. Hippocampal onset accounts for at least 80% of all temporal lobe seizures. The …

Febrile seizures

LG Sadleir, IE Scheffer - Bmj, 2007 - bmj.com
Seizures associated with fever are a common pae diatric problem. Differentiation of febrile
seizures from acute symptomatic seizures secondary to cen tral nervous system infection or …

Epileptogenesis provoked by prolonged experimental febrile seizures: mechanisms and biomarkers

CM Dubé, T Ravizza, M Hamamura, Q Zha… - Journal of …, 2010 - jneurosci.org
Whether long febrile seizures (FSs) can cause epilepsy in the absence of genetic or
acquired predisposing factors is unclear. Having established causality between long FSs …

Outcome of paediatric convulsive status epilepticus: a systematic review

M Raspall-Chaure, RFM Chin, BG Neville… - The Lancet …, 2006 - thelancet.com
We did a systematic review on the outcome of paediatric convulsive status epilepticus (CSE)
and investigated the role of biological and non-biological variables in reported outcomes …