Electroconvulsive therapy for treatment of intractable seizures
- 1 November 1997
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Neurology
- Vol. 49 (5), 1389-1392
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.49.5.1389
Abstract
We treated two children with intractable epilepsy with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for seizure control. One child showed a change in seizure pattern with treatment, which at greater intensity was also effective in stopping nonconvulsive status epilepticus. The other child showed a decrease in spontaneous seizure frequency during short-term treatment. These findings suggest a possible role for ECT in the management of intractable epilepsy in children who are not candidates for epileptic surgery.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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