epilepsy considerable
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- Although epilepsy affects most patients with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), little is known about the natural history of epilepsy in this genetic disease.
- Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the major cause of morbidity and mortality in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients treated by hemodialysis (HD).
- Dravet syndrome is considered to be one of the most severe types of genetic epilepsy.
- Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is a chronic epileptic disorder involving the hippocampal formation.
- Febrile seizures (FS) are a form of acute symptomatic seizures.
- As the number of patients diagnosed with epilepsy continues to rise and the pharmacological and device-based treatment options for epilepsy increase, determining when to stop antiepileptic drug (AED) treatment continues to be an important issue for patient management and counseling.
- Cutaneous reactions secondary to medications are rare but can be serious events resulting in morbidity and mortality and can be caused by anticonvulsant medications.
- Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy is the most common idiopathic generalized epilepsy, characterized by frequent myoclonic jerks, generalized tonic-clonic seizures and, less commonly, absences.
- Malformations of cortical development (MCDs) represent a range of neurodevelopmental disorders that are collectively common causes of developmental delay and epilepsy, especially refractory childhood epilepsy.