Sentences with phrase «drug resistant epilepsy»

Although the data is limited in adults, for those with drug resistant epilepsy, this could be a very good treatment of choice.

Emerging research also shows that a ketogenic diet can be very helpful for drug resistant epilepsy, especially in children.

Children with drug resistant epilepsy are at risk of insufficient vitamin D status prior to starting ketogenic therapy (3) and although levels can be normalised with vitamin D supplementation, a decline in both whole body and spine bone mineral content while on the ketogenic diet has been reported (4) despite reduction in anticonvulsant medication.

Space considerations in print forced us to slim down the feature on deep brain stimulation for drug resistant epilepsy, which appears in the Spring 2015 issue of Emory Medicine. While I encourage you to please read our story profiling playwright Paula Moreland, here are some take - away points:

«Further, this is a potential treatment for Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease), drug resistant epilepsy, brittle type I diabetes, and diabetes type II, where there is insulin resistance.

There does exist a group of the population with epilepsy that do not respond well to AEDs and are believed to have drug resistant epilepsy.

It has been found that for those adults (with drug resistant epilepsy) who comply with the diet, around 30 % report 50 % or more reduction in seizures (14).

Approximately 1/3 of dogs with epilepsy fail to achieve adequate seizure control with anti-seizure medication, and are considered to have drug resistant epilepsy.