Sentences with phrase «onset epilepsy»

Other health concerns for Dachshunds are Lafora's Disease, a form of late onset epilepsy, and PRA blindness.

Her research interests are directed at improving outcomes in early onset epilepsy, which includes the role of early surgical intervention and the ketogenic diet.

Not exact matches

«Engineer locates brain's seizure onset zone in record time: Discovery breakthrough for epilepsy patients.»

Nearly 30 percent of epilepsy patients are resistant to drug therapy, so they have the option of surgery to remove their seizure onset zones.

In future studies, the researchers hope to determine the exact time window in which TrkB signaling needs to be repressed to prevent the onset of epilepsy.

If the drug stopped the genetically altered mice from becoming epileptic, this genetic approach would prove that inhibiting TrkB prevents the onset of epilepsy.

According to the authors, the study reveals that brivaracetam daily doses of 100 mg and 200 mg are generally well tolerated and may help reduce seizure frequency when administered as adjunctive therapy in adult epilepsy patients with partial onset seizures.

The two primary outcomes in this study evaluating adjunctive brivaracetam in the treatment of partial - onset seizures in adults with epilepsy were statistically significant and clinically relevant,» said Dr. Pavel Klein, director, Mid-Atlantic Epilepsy and Sleep Center.

This technique, known as «responsive neurostimulation» (RNS), has proved effective for epilepsy and an existing system has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treating partial onset seizures (which affect only part of the brain).

We implanted intracranial depth electrodes in seven subjects to identify seizure - onset zones for subsequent epilepsy surgery.

She specializes in diagnosing and treating patients with intractable epilepsy and new - onset seizures and has particular expertise in treating women with epilepsy who are pregnant or trying to become pregnant.

Lennox - Gastaut syndrome (LGS) or Dravet syndrome (DS) are rare, severe forms of epilepsy with onset in early childhood and poor long - term prognoses.

GW's Epidiolex development is initially concentrating on severe, orphan, early - onset, treatment - resistant epilepsy syndromes including Dravet syndrome, Lennox - Gastaut syndrome (LGS), Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) and Infantile Spasms (IS).

We were unable to detect any genotype - phenotype correlation, but unlike previously reported cases, most of the DDD patients with STXBP1 pathogenic variants did not present with very early - onset or severe epilepsy and encephalopathy, though all have developmental delay with intellectual disability and most display behavioral problems and suffered seizures in later childhood.

If your Yorkshire terrier has three or more seizures within the first week of onset, the veterinarian will probably consider other diagnosis than idiopathic epilepsy.

Unfortunately, I have heard of a few Tervuren's who began snapping but, the vet determined this was not the dog's fault, but faulty breeding resulting in the onset of epilepsy.

This form of aggression is very difficult to diagnose correctly because the age of onset is 1 - 3 years which corresponds with the age that dominance aggression and idiopathic epilepsies first present and the symptoms of this disorder are very similar not only to dominance aggression and epilepsy but numerous other medical behavioral disorders such as rage syndrome.

An estimated 65 % of dogs with the onset of seizures between 1 - 5 years old have primary epilepsy.3 It is a diagnosis of exclusion.

Future studies that assess cognition from the onset of epilepsy will help to characterise initial deficits.

The inherited conditions of aortic stenosis (a narrowing above the aortic heart valve or the aortic valve itself), atopy / allergic dermatitis (skin allergies), gastric dilatation volvulus (bloat / stomach dilation), early onset cataracts (a clouding of the lens inside the eye), dilated cardiomyopathy (enlargement of the chambers of the heart and thinning of the muscle wall), elbow dysplasia (abnormal growth of tissues that leads to malformation and degeneration of the joint), epilepsy (brain seizures), hypothyroidism (underactive production of thyroid hormones), intervertebral disk disease (problems with the disks between the vertebrae of the spine leading to neurological problems), and hepatic portosystemic shunt (an abnormal blood circulation where blood is diverted around the liver rather than into it) are more prevalent in purebred dogs than in mixed - breed.

In contrast, for aortic stenosis, gastric dilation volvulus, early onset cataracts, dilated cardiomyopathy, elbow dysplasia, epilepsy, and portosystemic shunt, the prevalence in most purebred groups was not distinct from that seen in the mixed - breed population.

For aortic stenosis, GDV, early onset cataracts, dilated cardiomyopathy, elbow dysplasia, epilepsy, and portosystemic shunt, most purebred groups were not statistically distinct from the mixed - breed population with higher prevalence in purebreds restricted to distinct subsets of purebred dogs.

Ten disorders studied exhibited a statistically significant elevated prevalence in the purebred population when compared to the mixed - breed population: aortic stenosis, atopy / allergic dermatitis, GDV, early onset cataracts, dilated cardiomyopathy, elbow dysplasia, epilepsy, hypothyroidism, IVDD, and portosystemic shunt [6].

For ten other inherited conditions, the purebred dog population had greater prevalence than that seen in mixed - breeds: aortic stenosis, atopy / allergic dermatitis, gastric dilatation volvulus (GDV), early onset cataracts, dilated cardiomyopathy, elbow dysplasia, epilepsy, hypothyroidism, intervertebral disk disease (IVDD), and portosystemic shunt.