Seizures
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Seizures Treatment: Specialist
Physicians from the following specialties evaluate and treat seizures:
Neurology
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Related Topics:
Epilepsy
Febrile seizure
Loss of consciousness
Petit-mal seizures
Temporal lobe epilepsy
Tonic clonic seizure
Tremors and shakes
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Seizures References:
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Camfield P, Camfield C. Epileptic syndromes in childhood: clinical features, outcomes, and treatment. Epilepsia. 2002;43 Suppl 3:27-32.
Kinsman SL, Vining EP, Quaskey SA, Mellits D, Freeman JM. Efficacy of the ketogenic diet for intractable seizure disorders: review of 58 cases. Epilepsia. 1992 Nov-Dec;33(6):1132-6.
Pearl PL, Bennett HD, Khademian Z. Seizures and metabolic disease. Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep. 2005 Mar;5(2):127-33.
Posner EB, Mohamed K, Marson AG. A systematic review of treatment of typical absence seizures in children and adolescents with ethosuximide, sodium valproate or lamotrigine. Seizure. 2005 Mar;14(2):117-22.