Meanings of intractable seizures in English

POLG1 mutations are common, and these patients often suffer from intractable seizures.

Five days after correction of her hyperammonemia, the patient developed intractable seizures and coma.

Ketogenic diet is effective in the control of intractable seizures.

It is typically characterized by congenital microcephaly, intractable seizures of infantile onset, and severe psychomotor retardation.

The intractable seizures showed complete but transient responsiveness to pyridoxal phosphate and finally controlled by valproate treatment.

For patients with intractable seizures, the best surgical outcome is achieved following precise localization of the seizure focus.

Patient 1 had also intractable seizures.

Methods: Thirteen consecutive children at The Hospital for Sick Children underwent single-stage corpus callosotomy for medically intractable seizures.

All four patients suffered from intractable seizures that started at the age of 3 and 4 months.

X-linked Infantile Spasms Syndrome (ISSX) is a catastrophic epilepsy of early childhood with intractable seizures, intellectual disability, and poor prognosis.

This study suggests that the ketogenic diet via gastrostomy feeding tube is safe and effective in children with intractable seizures and ensures compliance.

With recent descriptions of the modified hemispherectomies and hemicorticectomy, there has been renewed interest in hemispherectomy for treatment of intractable seizures with hemiparesis.

Analogous to the heart, pacing or defibrillating the brain using external scalp electrodes may have a role in the control of otherwise intractable seizures.

Conclusions: Functional hemispherectomy is a good surgical option in the setting of large unilateral hemispheric lesions causing hemiparesis and intractable seizures, even in adult patients.

Epilepsy, varying greatly in age at onset and severity, consistently influenced the prognosis for five patients with diffuse EEG abnormalities and intractable seizures with falls.

All 15 of the patients with novel SCN2A missense mutations had intractable seizures; 3 of them were seizure-free at the last medical examination.