Treatment of symptomatic epilepsy

summary

For epilepsy, a common nervous system disease, it is very difficult to treat, because it has many causes, and each attack will cause certain harm to the human body, so we should be prepared for long-term treatment. Next, I will introduce the treatment of symptomatic epilepsy.

Treatment of symptomatic epilepsy

First, drug therapy at home and abroad for the treatment of epilepsy is mainly drug therapy. Indications for the use of antiepileptic drugs: once the diagnosis of epilepsy is established, antiepileptic drugs should be used in time to control seizures. However, for the first attack, attack has inducing factors or rare attack, it can be considered as appropriate.

Second, surgical treatment of epilepsy provides a new treatment for this part of patients. It is estimated that about 50% of drug-resistant epilepsy patients can be controlled or cured by surgery, which improves the prognosis of refractory epilepsy to a certain extent.

Thirdly, neuromodulatory therapy is a new neurophysiological technology, and it has become the most promising treatment abroad. At present, it includes: repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS); central nervous system electrical stimulation (deep brain electrical stimulation, epilepsy cortex stimulation, etc.); peripheral nerve stimulation (vagus nerve stimulation).

matters needing attention

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