Epileptic Disorders
MENUEfficacy of lamotrigine add-on therapy in severe partial epilepsy in adults with drop seizures and secondary bilateral synchrony on EEG Volume 3, numéro 3, September 2001
Illustrations
Francesca Bisulli, Agostino Baruzzi, Anna Rosati, Roberto Riva, Patrizia Avoni, Angelina Cerullo, Paolo Tinuper
MD, Neurological Institute. University of Bologna, Via Ugo Foscolo 7, 40123 Bologna, Italy.
- Page(s) : 151-6
- Année de parution : 2001
Epileptic drop attacks (EDA) have been defined as a sudden fall without warning, accompanied or not by loss of consciousness [1, 2]. This type of seizure can be found in patients with partial epilepsy (PE), and secondary bilateral synchrony (SBS) has been implicated as the physiopathogenetic basis [3-5]. SBS consists of an abrupt spread of the ictal focal discharge, mainly frontal, to both hemispheres via the corpus callosum and the hippocampal [...]