AES: American Epilepsy Society
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Teenagers with epilepsy may benefit from depression screening
NEW ORLEANS – As much as 8% of patients with pediatric epilepsy may have moderately severe depressive symptoms, and...
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Promising add-on therapy for neonatal seizures found active in safety study
The adverse events were not substantially different in the group that received bumetanide.
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ACTH and other standard treatments prove best for infantile spasms
WASHINGTON – Adrenocorticotropic hormone and other standard therapies have a significant edge in gaining successful responses in infantile spasm...
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Fenfluramine trials in Dravet syndrome yield highly positive results
WASHINGTON – Adjunctive fenfluramine reduced mean monthly convulsive seizure frequency by 63.9% vs. placebo and had no evidence of cardiotoxicity...
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Hippocampal features may predispose children with febrile status epilepticus to poorer memory
WASHINGTON – Patients’ age at time of febrile status epilepticus, its duration, or their sex did not affect memory task performance.
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Analysis strengthens association between epilepsy onset, menarche
WASHINGTON – Adrenarche encompasses the period of risk.
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Children with infantile spasms or nonsyndromic epilepsy achieve similar outcomes
HOUSTON – Infants and children who had epilepsy that was not identified as being part of a syndrome fared slightly worse in developmental outcomes...
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Chest-worn seizure detection device shows promise
An investigative, chest-worn device shows promise for detecting a wide range of seizure types in children with epilepsy, results from a small...
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Psychiatric comorbidities common in newly diagnosed pediatric epilepsy cases
HOUSTON – About one in three children diagnosed with new-onset epilepsy present with psychiatric diagnoses at the onset, results from a single-...
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Study eyes fracture risk in pediatric patients taking antiepileptic drugs
HOUSTON – The incidence of fractures in pediatric patients taking antiepileptic medication stands at an estimated 1.1%.
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Infantile spasms diagnosis, treatment too often delayed
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Transition to adult epilepsy care done right
When patients are too old to be seen by pediatric specialists, the process of being transferred – instead of transitioned – to new providers does...
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Reasons for noncompliance to ketogenic diet explored
HOUSTON – More than one-third of children discontinued the ketogenic diet prior to completion of a 3-month trial because of reported difficulty, a...
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First visit for tuberous sclerosis complex comes months before diagnosis
HOUSTON – Many patients who eventually receive a diagnosis of tuberous sclerosis complex present with related complaints for months, or even years...
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Add-on fenfluramine reduces seizure frequency in Dravet syndrome
HOUSTON – Low-dose fenfluramine was found to reduce seizures significantly among a small cohort with Dravet syndrome without the appearance of...