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ReviewNeurosciences (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)2020

Treating epilepsy with options other than antiepileptic medications.

Osama Y Muthaffar

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Review in Neurosciences (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
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  3. Treatable inherited metabolic epilepsies.Neurosciences (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Osama Y MuthaffarDepartment of Pediatrics, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: oymuthaffar@kau.edu.sa.
King Abdulaziz University · SA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Epilepsy is a common health burden worldwide. Epilepsy is linked to variety of factors, including infectious, vascular, immune, structural, genetic, and metabolic etiologies. Despite the existence of multiple antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), many patients are diagnosed with intractable epilepsy. Many nonpharmacological options are available for epilepsy. Some types of epilepsy respond to cofactors. Other patients may be candidates for a ketogenic diet. Inflammatory mediators, such as intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIgs) and steroids, are other options for epilepsy. Recently, cannabinoids have been approved for epilepsy treatment. Refractory epilepsy can be treated with surgical interventions. Focal resections, hemispherectomies, and corpus callosotomies are some common epilepsy surgery approaches. Neuromodulation techniques are another option. Thermal ablation is a minimally invasive approach for epilepsy treatment. Epilepsy outcomes are improving, and treatment modalities are expanding. Trials of nonpharmacological options for epilepsy patients are recommended. This article summarizes available nonpharmacological options other than AEDs for the treatment of epilepsy.

Indexed as

Diet TherapyEpilepsyHumansImmunotherapyNeurosurgical Procedures

Identifiers

PMID33130805
PMCPMC8015608
OpenAlexW3047037593

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Registered trials

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