But in a just completed clinical trial, a unique nerve-stimulation treatment for intractable epilepsy reduced the number of seizures by more than 50 percent.
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www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090318140616.htm
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Overview: And Objectives Patients with medically intractable epilepsy are admitted to the long-term epilepsy-monitoring unit, where seizures are recorded with video and simultaneous EEG monitoring. Antiepileptic medications are tapered and the patients may be deprived of sleep to ... ... In frontal lobe epilepsy,
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emedicine.medscape.com/article/1185635-overview
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The study used two definitions for intractable epilepsy. The "strict" definition required two antiepileptic drug (AED) failures, at least one seizure per month for 18 months, and no seizure-free periods longer than three months during that time.
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www.neurologyreviews.com/feb06/epilepsy.html
www.neurologyreviews.com/feb06/epilepsy.html
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The word intractable means hard to control. It can be used in relation to many things. Lots of things can be intractable. So intractable epilepsy is when someone's epilepsy is quite serious, difficult to control and as a result has a major ...
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_intractable_epilepsy
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In some studies, over 30% of patients thought to have intractable epilepsy were found to have other disorders instead, most often psychogenic seizures. The other disorders often can be controlled, but only by an entirely different approach.
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www.epilepsy.com/articles/ar_1063677631
www.epilepsy.com/articles/ar_1063677631
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The Medscape Journal ... Allergy & Clinical Immunology ... Diabetes & Endocrinology...
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www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/16383154
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Intractable epilepsy in vascular congenital hemiparesis: clinical features and surgical options. ... Forty-one patients with vascular congenital hemiplegia and intractable epilepsy were reviewed. Most had severe hemiparesis, mental retardation, porencephaly, and focal epilepsy. Thirty-three were considered surgical...
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12105322
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Some individuals with epilepsy cannot be treated satisfactorily with any of the commonly available medications. At the University of Virginia's F.E. Dreifuss Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, these patients may be treated in three ways:
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www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/neurology/what_w...
www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/neurology/what_we_treat/epilepsy/treatments/intractable.cfm
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