Female and juvenile epilepsy

Epilepsy is a common disease of the nervous system with an increasing trend of incidence and morbidity rate worldwide. Female and juvenile epilepsy have occupied a certain part of the whole patients, and they possess special diagnostic and treatment points concerning their sex and age characteristic...

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Main Author: Bo XIAO
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tianjin Huanhu Hospital 2018-05-01
Series:Chinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgery
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Online Access:http://www.cjcnn.org/index.php/cjcnn/article/view/1777
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Summary:Epilepsy is a common disease of the nervous system with an increasing trend of incidence and morbidity rate worldwide. Female and juvenile epilepsy have occupied a certain part of the whole patients, and they possess special diagnostic and treatment points concerning their sex and age characteristics, for example, the pregnancy faced by women and the growth problem confronted by juvenile, which lead to differences in choosing antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), drawing up treatment strategy and evaluating prognosis. It is of great importance to correctly grasp the key points in the diagnosis and treatment of female and juvenile epilepsy so as to keep control of epileptic attacks, lower down the complications and decrease drug?related adverse effects. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1672-6731.2018.05.005
ISSN:1672-6731