This 5-year retrospective observational study describes the epilepsy encountered in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment and early Alzheimers disease.
In patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy, levetiracetam monotherapy was not superior to monotherapy with controlled-release carbamazepine or extended-release sodium valproate.
Evidence-based updates in primary care medicine By Louis Kuritzky, MD
Periictal headaches are frequent, severe, and undertreated, and can be predicted by younger age at epilepsy onset, drug polytherapy, and tonic-clonic generalized seizures.
Contrary to popular belief, a longitudinal study has found that much of late-life cognitive decline was not secondary to the three most common neurodegenerative disease pathologies.
Based on a review of data from 76 adult patients with longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis, the authors highlight the importance of considering a differential diagnosis in those patients with longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis who are aquaporin 4 negative, yet who meet the diagnostic criteria for neuromyelitis optica.
Evidence-based updates in primary care medicine By Louis Kuritzky, MD
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