background: the main purpose of the current study was to determine the effect of treating helicobacter pylori (hp) infection on seizure frequency in patients with refractory epilepsy. methods: a small sample of adult patients above 18 years of age with a diagnosis of refractory epilepsy was studied at the outpatient epilepsy clinic at shiraz university of medical sciences, from january 2009 thr...

EXTRACELLULAR GLUTAMATE, GLUTAMINE, AND GABA IN THE HIPPOCAMPUS AND CORTEX OF REFRACTORY EPILEPSY PATIENTS. Jonathan C. Romanyshyn and Idil Cavus MD, PhD. Departments of Psychiatry and Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Antiepileptic drug (AED) resistance affects one third of patients with epilepsy and is associated with significant disability. Brain microdialysis ...

evidence based medicine (ebm) is a new approach to patient management which incorporates best evidence with the clinical expertise of the health care providers. although this approach has had a rapid growth in many clinical disciplines, its applications in radiology and nuclear medicine has not been addressed sufficiently. in this review ebm is briefly explained and the first two steps of the e...

Non-invasive nuclear imaging by positron emission tomography and single photon emission computed tomography has significantly contributed to epileptic focus localization in human neurology for several decades now. Offering functional insight into brain alterations, it is also of particular relevance for epilepsy research. Access to these techniques for veterinary medicine is becoming more and m...

how to cite this article: aminzadeh v, setila dalili s, ashoorian y, kohmanaee sh, hassanzadeh rad a. anthropometric indices in children with refractory epilepsy. iran j child neurol. winter 2016; 10(1):47-52. abstract objective we aimed to assess the effect of body mass index (bmi) on reducing the risk of refractory seizure due to lipoid tissue factors. materials & methods this matched case-co...

Background: Epilepsy is the second common neurologic disorder. Although many antiepileptic drugs have been formulated to control the seizures, but not all seizures have been controlled by them. Uncontrolled epilepsy can actually reduce the patients’ quality of life. Objectives: Identifying the proportion of adult intractable epilepsy among epileptic patients in an area in the North East o...

Up to a third of all patients with epilepsy are refractory to medical therapy even in the context of the introduction of new antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) with considerable advantages in safety and tolerability over the last two decades. It has been widely accepted that epilepsy surgery is a highly effective therapeutic option in a selected subset of patients with refractory focal seizure. There i...

OBJECTIVE Epilepsy surgery is one of the most effective treatments in modern medicine. Yet, it remains largely under-utilized, in spite of its proven efficacy. The referrals for epilepsy surgery are often delayed until it is too late to prevent the detrimental psychosocial effects of refractory seizures. The reluctance towards epilepsy surgery is influenced by the perceived risks of the procedu...

dyke-davidoff-masson syndrome (ddms) is a syndrome associated with refractory epilepsy. ddms is a rare syndrome characterized by seizures, facial asymmetry, contralateral hemiplegia and mental retardation. the characteristic radiologic features are cerebral hemiatrophy with homolateral hypertrophy of the skull and sinuses. the case was an 18 years old female with seizures, hemiparesis of the ri...