The management of medically intractable epilepsy is frequently assisted by the identification of structural abnormalities made possible by modern imaging techniques. The association between meningoencephaloceles and epileptic seizures is well reported in the literature. We report a patient with refractory right frontal lobe epilepsy caused by a right nasal meningoencephalocele who was rendered ...

objective(s): diagnostic nuclear medicine is being increasingly employed in clinical practice with the advent of new technologies and radiopharmaceuticals. the report of the prevalence of a certain disease is important for assessing the quality of that article. therefore, this study was performed to evaluate the quality of published nuclear medicine articles and determine the frequency of repor...

Since its introduction to neurosurgery in 2008, laser ablative techniques have been largely confined to the management of unresectable tumors. Application of this technology for the management of focal epilepsy in the adult population has not been fully explored. Given that nearly 1,000,000 Americans live with medically refractory epilepsy and current surgical techniques only address a fraction...

Epilepsy is a chronic disorder affecting approximately 1% of the population of the world. Approximately one third of patients with epilepsy remain refractory to medical therapy. For these patients, surgery is a curative option. In order for surgery to be considered, precise localization of the structural abnormality is needed. When MR imaging findings are normal, more sensitive techniques such ...

Background: Refractory (intractable/pharmaco-resistant) epilepsy in children is considered if disabling seizures continue despite appropriate trials of two anti-seizure drugs, either alone or combination. Ketogenic diets are used as a treatment option many countries for with refractory seizures; however, few patients have tried it Saudi Arabia. Therefore, we examined the relationship between ex...

epilepsy is the third most common chronic brain disorder which is characterized by an enduring predisposition to generate seizures. mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (mtle) is the most common type of refractory epilepsy. increasing evidence indicates that neuroinflammation plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of mtle. hundreds of micro-rnas have been found to be abnormally expressed in epilept...

We compared the effects of medical and combined surgical and medical treatment of refractory epilepsy on intellectual functioning in a group of children (n=13) and a group of adults (n=15). The patients were tested with the age-appropriate versions of Wechsler's intelligence scales twice prior to and once after epilepsy surgery. There were no significant differences between the groups in preope...

The combination of psychosis and refractory temporal lobe epilepsy is not rare. However, patients with chronic interictal psychosis and refractory epilepsy are rejected from many epilepsy surgery programmes purely on psychiatric grounds. It is often assumed that disturbed behaviour will prevent adequate preoperative evaluation or that the patients are unable to provide informed consent for preo...

Epilepsy, one of the most common neurologic disorders, is a major public health issue. Despite more than 20 approved antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), about 30% of patients are refractory to treatment. An important characteristic of pharmacoresistant epilepsy is that most patients with refractory epilepsy are resistant to several, if not all, AEDs, even though these drugs act by different mechanisms....

Introduction: The aim of present study was to estimate effective dose from most common procedures performed in nuclear medicine departments of Golestan province. Methods: Data of nuclear medicine procedures performed in 2 nuclear medicine departments in Golestan province were collected during 4 years. Effective dose, collective effective dose and effective dose per examination were calculated ...