Antiepileptic Drug Exposure in Infants of Breastfeeding Mothers With Epilepsy
1. Antiepileptic drug exposure in infants of breastfeeding mothers being treated for epilepsy is low. Evidence Rating Level: 2 (Good) While ...
Tag: epilepsy
2 Minute Medicine Rewind January 6, 2020
Association Between Immune-Related Adverse Events and Recurrence-Free Survival Among Patients With Stage III Melanoma Randomized to Receive Pembrolizumab or Placebo: ...
Viral vector based gene therapies show promise for treating focal epilepsy [PreClinical]
1. Seizures are often associated with accumulation of extracellular glutamate due to the synchronous discharges of excitatory neurons. 2. Treatment ...
Cannabidiol plus conventional antiepileptics reduces drop seizure frequency in the Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
1. Amongst adults and children with the Lennox-Gastaut (LG) syndrome, addition of cannabidiol to a conventional antiepileptic regimen reduced drop ...
Influenza vaccine not associated with increased risk of epilepsy in children
1. No increased risk of incident epilepsy was seen among children who received influenza vaccination during the 2009-2010 influenza season ...
2 Minute Medicine Rewind October 30, 2017
Surgery for Drug-Resistant Epilepsy in Children The role of surgery in cases of drug-resistant recalcitrant epilepsy in children and adolescents ...
Childhood epilepsy linked to increased comorbidity
1. In a Norwegian nationwide registry study, children with epilepsy were compared to the general population. Over three-quarters of children ...
Epileptogenic foci may be lateralized using functional brain glutamate imaging
1. Among patients with drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy not associated with a brain lesion, focally elevated levels of glutamate were ...
Myeloperoxidase upregulation in epileptogenesis seen on molecular imaging
1. There is an increase in hippocampal myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity in a murine model of epileptogenesis, which can be imaged ...
2 Minute Medicine Rewind May 3 – May 10, 2015
In this section, we highlight the key high-impact studies, updates, and analyses published in medicine during the past week. Risk ...