Book contents
- Case Studies in Epilepsy
- Case Studies in Epilepsy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Section 1 Diagnosis
- Section 2 Treatment
- Case 39 Unconscious: never again work above a meter?
- Case 40 A patient’s patience
- Case 41 Idiopathic absence epilepsy: unusual AED consumption successful
- Case 42 Woman with gastric reflux – careful with combinations of medications
- Case 43 An example of both pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic interactions
- Case 44 Never give up trying to find the right medication even in patients who are refractory
- Case 45 Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and seizure aggravation
- Case 46 Episodic aphasia – surgery or not ?
- Case 47 Temporal lobe epilepsy: drugs or surgery?
- Case 48 Shaking in elderly: reversible or fate?
- Case 49 Failure of surgical treatment in a typical medial temporal lobe epilepsy
- Case 50 Cutaneous adverse reactions by AEDs: chance or predetermination?
- Case 51 Timing of medical and surgical treatment of epilepsy: a hemispherotomy that would have prevented disabling cerebellar atrophy
- Case 52 Anticonvulsive drugs for gait disturbance and slurred speech?
- Case 53 Unsuccessful surgery: another chance?
- Case 54 If it’s not broken, don’t fix it!
- Case 55 Never ever give up
- Case 56 Hippocampal deep brain stimulation may be an alternative for resective surgery in medically refractory temporal lobe epilepsy
- Case 57 Myoclonic seizures and recurrent nonconvulsive status epilepticus in Dravet syndrome
- Case 58 Functional hemispherotomy for drug-resistant post-traumatic epilepsy
- Case 59 Pharmacoresistant epilepsy?
- Case 60 Vagus nerve stimulation for epilepsy
- Case 61 The strange behavior of a vegetarian: a diagnostic indicator for treatment?(a quiz case)
- Index
Case 47 - Temporal lobe epilepsy: drugs or surgery?
from Section 2 - Treatment
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2012
Book contents
- Case Studies in Epilepsy
- Case Studies in Epilepsy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Section 1 Diagnosis
- Section 2 Treatment
- Case 39 Unconscious: never again work above a meter?
- Case 40 A patient’s patience
- Case 41 Idiopathic absence epilepsy: unusual AED consumption successful
- Case 42 Woman with gastric reflux – careful with combinations of medications
- Case 43 An example of both pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic interactions
- Case 44 Never give up trying to find the right medication even in patients who are refractory
- Case 45 Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and seizure aggravation
- Case 46 Episodic aphasia – surgery or not ?
- Case 47 Temporal lobe epilepsy: drugs or surgery?
- Case 48 Shaking in elderly: reversible or fate?
- Case 49 Failure of surgical treatment in a typical medial temporal lobe epilepsy
- Case 50 Cutaneous adverse reactions by AEDs: chance or predetermination?
- Case 51 Timing of medical and surgical treatment of epilepsy: a hemispherotomy that would have prevented disabling cerebellar atrophy
- Case 52 Anticonvulsive drugs for gait disturbance and slurred speech?
- Case 53 Unsuccessful surgery: another chance?
- Case 54 If it’s not broken, don’t fix it!
- Case 55 Never ever give up
- Case 56 Hippocampal deep brain stimulation may be an alternative for resective surgery in medically refractory temporal lobe epilepsy
- Case 57 Myoclonic seizures and recurrent nonconvulsive status epilepticus in Dravet syndrome
- Case 58 Functional hemispherotomy for drug-resistant post-traumatic epilepsy
- Case 59 Pharmacoresistant epilepsy?
- Case 60 Vagus nerve stimulation for epilepsy
- Case 61 The strange behavior of a vegetarian: a diagnostic indicator for treatment?(a quiz case)
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- Case Studies in EpilepsyCommon and Uncommon Presentations, pp. 149Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012