Periictal headaches are frequent, severe, and undertreated, and can be predicted by younger age at epilepsy onset, drug polytherapy, and tonic-clonic generalized seizures.
Evidence-based updates in primary care medicine By Louis Kuritzky, MD
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
Supplement to Clinical Cardiology Alert, Clinical Oncology Alert, Critical Care Alert, Hospital Medicine Alert, Infectious Disease Alert, Neurology Alert, OB/GYN Clinical Alert, Primary Care Reports.
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.
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.