Introduction: Schizencephaly is a rare congenital malformation of cerebral cortical development. Epilepsia partialis continua and movement disorders often display abnormal movements with overlapping phenomenology in schizencephaly. Case report: A 6-year-old-girl with normal prenatal and labor history, presented with continuous left hand movement since 1-year-old. Neurological examination sho…
Background: Epilepsy is a chronic condition characterized by unprovoked seizure. Vitamin D is necessary in child development process and is strongly influenced by the presence of anti-epileptic drugs. Objective: To determine the correlation of treatment duration and serum vitamin D levels in children with epilepsy who use the combination of valproic acid and topiramate. Methods: A cross section…
Background :Epilepsy is a chronic disease that increases the risk of interictal headaches, one of which is tension type headache. Tension type headachein epilepsy is triggered by recurrent neurogenic inflammation and central sensitization leading to pericranial tendernessaffecting on thecognitive function. The frequency of tension type headachein epilepsy is thoug…
Introduction: Various surgical procedures have been found to effectively treat intractable temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), including transcortical selective amygdalohippocampectomy (SAH), which is intended to protect the temporal lobe and to prevent interference with vascular structure. This research analyzed the outcome of post-operative seizure-free with transcortical selective amygdalohippo…
Latar belakang:Epilepsi refrakter merupakan epilepsi yang tidak membaik dengan pemberian obat anti epilepsi yang adekuat. Epilepsi refrakter terjadi pada 30-40% pasien dengan epilepsi. Bedah epilepsi merupakan salah satu tatalaksana dalam epilepsi refrakter, dan penggunaan elektrokortikografi dapat membantu menentukan daerah yang dioperasi. Penggunaan obat-obatan anestesi m…