Many Dravet patients don't respond to
current epilepsy medications, making the search for new options urgent.
Not exact matches
When patients with
epilepsy don't experience enough benefit from
current medications, doctors sometimes treat the disorder by surgically removing the area where seizures arise.
Dr. Kurrasch says about a third of all
epilepsy patients do not respond to
current medications and that hasn't changed in decades.
Minassian said the seizures progress and
current medications are ineffective against this form of
epilepsy.
Other exclusion criteria were pregnancy and
current use of
medications or any history of a medical condition that might affect the central nervous system at the time of scanning (eg,
current treatment with a β - blocker or analgesic
medication or history of head trauma with loss of consciousness or
epilepsy).