This guideline covers diagnosing and managing epilepsy in children, young people and adults in primary and secondary care, and referral to tertiary services. It aims to improve diagnosis and treatment for different seizure types and epilepsy syndromes, and reduce the risks for people with epilepsy.
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The guideline covers diagnosing, treating and managing epilepsy and seizures in children, young people and adults in primary and secondary care. It offers best practice advice on managing epilepsy to improve health outcomes so that people with epilepsy can fully participate in daily life.
MHRA advice o...
Trofimova, Anna;
Milla, Sarah;
Ryan, Maura;
Pruthi, Sumit;
Blount, Jeffrey;
Desai, Nilesh;
Glenn, Orit;
Islam, Monica;
Kadom, Nadja;
Mirsky, David;
Myseros, John;
Partap, Sonia;
Radhakrishnan, Rupa;
Rose, Emily;
Soares, Bruno;
Trout, Andrew;
Udayasankar, Unni;
Whitehead, Matthew;
Karmazyn, Boaz.
In children, seizures represent an extremely heterogeneous group of medical conditions ranging from benign cases, such as a simple febrile seizure, to life-threatening situations, such as status epilepticus. Underlying causes of seizures also represent a wide range of pathologies from idiopathic cases, u...
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La epilepsia es una condición neurológica caracterizada por “crisis de epilepsia” recurrentes y no provocadas por desencadenantes inmediatos identificables. La “crisis de epilepsia” es la manifestación clínica de una descarga anormal y excesiva de un grupo de neuronas cerebrales. La epilepsia...
