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Network Analysis of Foramen Ovale Electrode Recordings in Drug-resistant Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Patients
Published on: December 18, 2016
[Prognosis in epilepsy and tactics in terminating antiepileptic therapy]
1Fyziologický ústav CSAV, Praha.
Abstract:
Views on the termination of long-term antiepileptic treatment differ. The submitted paper emphasizes the importance of a correctly established prognosis for assessment of a suitable time for the termination of therapy. The correct prognosis can be established on the basis of the mutual ratio of favourable and unfavourable prognostic factors in the course of every individual case of the disease. The aim of the work made in a group of 105 patients with epilepsy was to assess the prognostic values of 31 factors which play an important role in the course of the disease. The author found statistically significant differences in the incidence of some factors in patient groups with a favourable and adverse course of the disease. In the conclusion the author describes the tactics of terminating antiepileptic treatment based on the assessed prognostic factors.
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