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• Clinical Scientist, Honorary Fellow in Pediatric Urology,
• Institute of Child Health, University College London and
• Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, United
• Kingdom

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Cortical tubers often have a firm, consistency related to gliosis and microcalcifications. Other pathological findings in the brain of tuberous sclerosis patients include subependymal nodules and giant cell astrocytomas typically located at the foramen of Monro leading to obstructive hydrocephalus in some patients. The presence of nevus flameus in the distribution of the first division (ophthalmic) of the trigeminal nerve high correlates with the central nervous system involvement. The leptomeninges are marked by a proliferation of venous and capillary vessels arranged in a hemangiomatous configuration. The underlying cortex often demonstrates gliosis with prominent microcalcifications. The constellations of findings suggest epidermal nevus syndrome, which is a sporadic condition. Epidermal nevus syndromes may be associated with hemimegalencephaly ipsilateral to the facial cutaneous findings. The parenchyma is marked by cystic degeneration accompanied by macrophages and gliosis. Note the relative sparing of the molecular layer that is more commonly observed with infarcts versus contusion. Rasmussen encephalitis typically presents with intractable partial seizures (usually focal motor seizures and epilepsia partialis continua), progressive hemiparesis, cognitive decline, and unilateral cerebral atrophy with early and prominent involvement of the insular region. Cavernous angiomas are marked by a proliferation of dilated venous vessels, typically arranged in back-to-back fashion, without intervening neural parenchyma. These findings that are illustrated here include leptomeningeal chronic inflammation, perivascular parenchymal inflammation with microglial nodule formation (arrow), and gliosis. It is marked by a proliferation of atypical ganglion cells intermixed with an atypical gliomatous component, most commonly resembling low-grade astrocytoma. Gangliogliomas most commonly arise in the temporal lobe, often in childhood, and are associated with cortical dysplasia. Perivascular chronic inflammation and eosinophilic granular bodies are also common features of this tumor type. This photomicrograph shows rare atypical large neuronal cells intermixed with a more spindle cell glioma component.

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It has been deliberately kept separate from the clinical data, because this type of data is a better guide to predicting outcomes in practice. As with all Stockley products, providing guidance on how to manage an interaction is our key aim. Some of the monographs have been compressed into fewer subsections instead of the more usual five, simply where information is limited or where there is little need to be more expansive. Reading the Importance and management section will explain which members of the groups are most likely to represent a problem. Action: this describes whether or not any action needs to be taken to accommodate the interaction. Severity: this describes the likely effect of an unmanaged interaction on the patient. These ratings are combined to produce one of five symbols: For interactions that have a life-threatening outcome, or where concurrent use is considered to be best avoided. For interactions where concurrent use may result in a significant hazard to the patient and so dosage adjustment or close monitoring is needed. The monographs this publication includes over 150 herbal medicines, nutraceuticals or dietary supplements. For each of these products there is an introductory section, which includes the following sections where appropriate. The synonyms, constituents and uses have largely been compiled with reference to a number of standard sources. We have therefore adopted one name for each herbal medicine that is used consistently throughout the monograph, and indeed across the publication. However, we are aware that we will not always have selected the most appropriate name for some countries and have therefore included a synonyms field to aid users who know the plant by different names. The synonyms come from several well-respected sources and, where botanical names are used, have been cross-checked against the extremely useful database constructed by Kew (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2002). Occasionally the same synonym has been used for more than one herbal medicine and, where we are aware of this, we have been careful to highlight the potential for confusion.

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When seizures continue to occur for unknown reasons or because of a problem that cannot be corrected, the condition is known as epilepsy. Seizures occur due to brief disturbances in the normal electrical functions of the brain. Millions of tiny electrical charges pass between nerve cells in the brain and connect to all parts of the body. When someone has epilepsy, this normal pattern may occasionally be interrupted by short bursts of electrical energy that are much stronger than usual. This can cause muscle spasms or uncontrollable body movements, loss of consciousness or confusion. Seizures can occur in just one area of the brain (partial/focal seizures) or may affect nerve cells throughout the brain (generalized seizures). Among the rest of the people with epilepsy, the cause may be any one of a number of things that can make a difference in the way the brain works. For example, head injuries or lack of oxygen during birth may damage the delicate electrical system in the brain. Other causes include brain tumors, lead poisoning, problems in development of the brain before birth and infections like meningitis or encephalitis. Epilepsy can run in families but usually does not-you cannot catch epilepsy from someone else and nobody can catch it from you. Some 30 percent of people with epilepsy are severely affected and continue to have seizures despite treatment. In addition to their main doctor, usually a pediatrician, most children with epilepsy will at times need to see a doctor who specializes in epilepsy treatment, such as a neurologist, pediatric neurologist, neurosurgeon, epileptologist or a neuropsychologist. Specialized care for people whose seizures are difficult to control is available in large medical centers, neurological clinics at universities and other hospitals and epilepsy centers. There are many seizure-prevention drugs (also known as antiepileptic, anticonvulsant or antiseizure drugs) available and it can sometimes take awhile to find the one or combination of drugs that works best for each child. The goal is to keep the blood level high enough to prevent seizures, but not so high that it causes excessive sleepiness or other unpleasant side effects.

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Phenytoin Phenytoin is a weak organic acid, poorly soluble in water, and available as free acid and a sodium salt. Doserelated effects of phenytoin include nystagmus, ataxia, altered coordination, cognitive changes, and dyskinesia. Folate deficiency may be severe enough to cause megaloblastic anemia; a transient encephalopathy is said to occur by a similar mechanism (54). Prolonged exposure to Oxcarbazepine Oxcarbazepine is a keto analogue of carbamazepine that is rapidly converted to a 10-monohydroxy active metabolite by cytosol arylketone reductase. Allergic dermatitis, hepatotoxicity, serum sickness, and aplastic anemia may be fatal (59). Adverse cognitive effects occur at high doses in adults; however, slowing the pace of dose increases reduces the impact on cognitive function (61,62). Children should be monitored for oligohydrosis with hyperthermia, especially in hot weather (66). An encephalopathy has been reported in patients treated with toprimate combined with valproate (67). Additional risk factors are presumed metabolic disorders or severe epilepsy complicating mental retardation and organic brain disease (10,11,68,69). Most clinicians, however, consider this pattern of incidence too restrictive or insufficiently detailed to allow identification of patients at highest risk (70). Moreover, routine laboratory monitoring does not predict fulminant and irreversible hepatic failure (71). Some patients who progressed to fatal hepatotoxic reactions never exhibited abnormalities on specific hepatic function tests. Conversely, abnormal levels of serum ammonia, carnitine, and fibrinogen, as well as hepatic function anomalies have been reported without clinically significant hepatotoxic reactions (45,72).

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Experimental evidence and mechanism In two in vitro studies, piperine inhibited the transport of digoxin by P-glycoprotein in a concentration-dependent manner. The authors of one of the studies suggest that an inhibitory concentration of piperine could potentially be achieved in vivo after ingestion of soup containing 1 g black pepper. However, a clinical study is needed to assess whether ingestion of pepper or piperine-containing supplements actually alters digoxin levels. Until more is known, bear this finding in mind in the event of unexpected 316 Pepper isoniazid may reduce isoniazid levels to below the required minimum inhibitory concentration. However, the widespread use of pepper in cooking and lack of reports of treatment failure with isoniazid provide some reassurance that an interaction is unlikely. Nevertheless, bear in mind the possibility of an interaction if there is any indication of a lack of isoniazid efficacy in a patient taking Trikatu. Effect of Trikatu (piperine) on the pharmacokinetic profile of isoniazid in rabbits. In vitro and in vivo evaluation of the effects of piperine on P-gp function and expression. For mention that piperine increased the absorption of one green tea catechin, see Tea + Herbal medicines, page 386. In this single-dose study there was no difference in the incidence of adverse events. On repeated dosing nevirapine induces its own metabolism (hence the need to increase the dose after 2 weeks), but in this study nevirapine was given as a single dose, so autoinduction would not have played any part. Subjects in this study were fasting, but food does not affect nevirapine pharmacokinetics. Importance and management this study appears to show that piperine markedly increases the exposure to single-dose nevirapine that might easily be achieved with piperine-containing supplements or even from consuming black pepper. However, at present there is no clear explanation for the finding, and further investigation is clearly warranted. Furthermore, how the findings relate to the use of multiple-dose nevirapine is unknown, especially as nevirapine induces its own metabolism.

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Penfield described successful control of seizures when he extended the resection to include the uncus and hippocampus in patients whose anterior and lateral resections did not initially eliminate seizures. Most experts use a classification that combines anatomical, clinical, and neuroimaging criteria into the following clinicopathologic categories: 1. Temporal lobe epilepsy without an identified epileptogenic lesion (termed cryptogenic, nonlesional, and paradoxical). Memory-related symptoms, ranging from a feeling of familiarity or strangeness, to elaborate hallucinations, when the patient may feel that he is taking part in a scene experienced before. In its simplest form, the patient may stare quietly, or carry on simple automatic activities such as walking. Chewing, sucking, swallowing automatisms associated with tonic or dystonic postures of the contralateral arm are frequently observed. Habitual seizures with limbic characteristics typically begin during the end of the first decade of life. Most patients experience auras that probably arise from brain regions adjacent to the hippocampus. C: A T2 sequence showing a large cystic lesion in left temporal lobe with sharply defined borders and no surrounding edema in a patient with low-grade temporal lobe tumor. One study evaluated the localizing value of abdominal auras in 491 consecutive patients with refractory epilepsy (38). In fact, interictal discharges that exhibit a consistent unilateral focal preponderance over a single region usually predict seizure origin (39). In the temporal lobe, involvement of amygdala was described in 11 of 29 autopsy cases (16). Furthermore, one study indicated that even patients with intracranially recorded bilateral independent temporal seizures could have a seizure-free outcome after temporal lobectomy. The authors offered temporal lobectomy if at least 50% of seizures originated from one mesial temporal lobe, no focal extratemporal seizure or epileptogenic lesion was detected, and there was adequate contralateral memory function on Wada memory test.

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Use and indications Astragalus is traditionally used in Chinese medicine as a tonic to strengthen the immune system, for viral infections, fatigue and loss of blood. It is now used as a liver protectant, an adjunct in chemotherapy and impaired immunity, and for 46 Astragalus 47 Astragalus + Antineoplastics Astragalus improved the response to chemotherapy with mitomycin, a vinca alkaloid and cisplatin in one study. Limited experimental data suggest that astragalus may diminish the immunosuppressant effects of cyclophosphamide. This suggests that astragalus reversed the immunosuppressant effect of cyclophosphamide. Importance and management the preclinical and preliminary clinical evidence suggests that astragalus might have immunomodulating activity and effects on blood cell production, and might therefore have beneficial effects if it is given with antineoplastics. Some have interpreted the preclinical data showing increased rejection of a xenograft2 as suggesting that astragalus might decrease the effects of immunosuppressive therapy, and recommend caution with the combination. Reversal of cyclophosphamide-induced immune suppression by administration of fractionated Astragalus membranaceus in vivo. Mechanisms by which Astragalus membranaceus injection regulates hematopoiesis in myelosuppressed mice. Extract of astragalus membranaceus and ligustrum lucidum does not prevent cyclophosphamide-induced myelosuppression. Forty patients receiving the herbs had a significantly greater decline in viral load than 20 patients receiving placebo. Mechanism Unknown, although many in vitro studies have shown that astragalus has immunostimulating effects. Because the herbal product used contained three different herbs, a beneficial effect for a combination of astragalus and antiretroviral drugs is still far from proven. A Astragalus + Cytokines Preliminary evidence suggests that astragalus may be beneficial when given with interferon-alfa or interleukin-2. Clinical evidence In a controlled study in 235 patients, astragalus appeared to act synergistically with interferon-alfa for the topical treatment of chronic cervicitis associated with viral infection. Local application of astragalus extract plus interferon was similar in efficacy to twice the dose of interferon alone, and more effective than astragalus alone. Importance and management the above preliminary evidence suggests that astragalus might have immunomodulating activity and might therefore be beneficial when given with interferons or interleukin-2.

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Our seizure prediction method enables further feature selection through sensitivity analysis, namely the discovery of subsets of channels (and if relevant, frequencies of analysis), that have a strong discriminative power for the preictal versus interictal classification task. This limitation might slow down both the machine learning (training) and even the runtime (testing) phases. In our method, the classifier decides by itself which subset of channels is the most appropriate. Such surrogate methods are however virtually unknown in the abundant machine learning literature and its countless applications, because the validation of machine learning algorithms relies instead on the Statistical Learning Theory (Vapnik, 1995). The latter consists in regularizing the parameters of the classifier (as described in section 2. On one hand, the use of a carefully designed separate and unseen testing set verifies that the classifier works well in the general case, within the limits of the testing dataset. Given the long time required to train a machine learning classifier, such an approach is less computationally expensive than surrogate methods. On the other hand, the regularization permits to choose, among the infinity of configurations of parameter values. Moreover, regularization enables to cope with datasets where the number of inputs is greater than the number of training instances. This is for instance the case with machine-learning based classification of biological data, where very few micro-array measurements (each micro-array being a single instance in the learning dataset) contain tens of thousands of genes or protein expression levels. Nevertheless, let us devise the following combinatorial verification of the results. The probability of predicting each seizure of a patient, without false alarm, is a C (p) = A(p) B (p) m. If one tried 16 different random predictors for a given patient, and using again binomial distributions, the expected number of successful predictions would be computed as 1. Although the above combinatorial analysis only gives an upper bound on the number of "successful" random predictors for a given patient, it motivates a critical look at the results reported in Table 4. Specifically, seizure prediction results obtained for certain patients where only 1 or 2 classifiers (out of 16) succeeded in predicting without false alarm should be considered with reserve (such is the case for patients 13, 17, 19 and 21). Limitations of binary classification for seizure prediction A second limitation of our method lies in our binary classification approach. When attempting seizure prediction, binary classification is both a simplification and an additional challenge for training the classifier.

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Sivert, 56 years: As this study suggested that the pharmacodynamic effects of warfarin were not altered, any pharmacokinetic interaction would not be expected to be clinically relevant. Before starting the diet, families are asked to complete a three-day dietary record for the patient. In most patients, phenytoin exhibits nonlinear pharmacokinetics because the usual therapeutic plasma concentrations exceed the usual Km. However, left-hemispheric language dominance tends to bias memory scores with the recall of verbal stimuli appearing to be the hallmark of left-hemispheric function (16,18,19).

Jens, 25 years: Effect of topiramate or carbamazepine on the pharmacokinetics of an oral contraceptive containing norethindrone and ethinyl estradiol in healthy obese and nonobese female subjects. Due to extensive metabolism, rufinamide elimination is not influenced by renal dysfunction and no specific dosage changes are required for patients with renal impairments (11). The seizures are myoclonic, astatic, myoclonicastatic, absence with clonic and tonic components, and tonic-clonic. When the ability to generate an ictus becomes more facile, this is thought to generalize to epileptogenesis.

Runak, 43 years: Calcarine fissure becomes shallow as it courses posteriorly and does not quite extend to the occipital pole. Dystonic posturing in complex partial seizures of temporal lobe onset: a new lateralizing sign. Also, the pH of the gut is much lower than the pH used in the experimental study and there is a degree of interindividual variability in populations of bacterial flora. Neurocognitive attention and behavior outcome of school age children with a history of febrile convulsions: a population study.

Nefarius, 59 years: The preictal happiness and ecstasy reported by Dostoyevski have often been cited as examples. As a prophylactic treatment, topiramate 100 mg/day was effective in reduction of the number of migraine headaches a month (Lewis, 2009 [High Quality Evidence]). Children are encouraged to increase fluid intake to alleviate some of these symptoms. Vagus nerve stimulation is generally only considered if the condition has been unresponsive to medication and other surgical options have been ruled out.

Hamid, 29 years: Exploration of changes in health-related quality of life after 3 months of vagus nerve stimulation. Due to the potential seriousness of a hemorrhagic disorder in a newborn with high neonatal mortality, the 1998 guidelines recommend prophylactic treatment with vitamin K1 administered orally as 10 mg to the mother during the last month of pregnancy and 1 mg administered intramuscularly or intravenously to the newborn at birth (7). The intracranial ictal onset of patients in the series often involved the parietal or occipital regions, which harbored eloquent cortex that had restricted the extent of surgical resection. Importance and management the modest increase in coenzyme Q10 levels seen in this study with piperine (an alkaloid derived from black pepper) is unlikely to be clinically important, since coenzyme Q10 is a ubiquitous compound, generally regarded as safe.

Vibald, 35 years: Acute Treatment Recommendations: · Clinicians should utilize inhaled oxygen for the treatment of cluster headaches at a rate of 7-15 L/min. A 2015 working paper examining financing decisions of drug companies between 1950 and 2012 indicates that as competition increased total R&D expenditures increased in turn. Profound social isolation (4), feeling of shame and discomfort (5), and higher risk of psychiatric disorder (6) are among a host of variables contributing to a compromised quality of life. Tonic Seizures Semiology Tonic seizures are generalized convulsive seizures (7,46), even though they may be very brief and appear nonconvulsive.

Renwik, 38 years: Other drugs that have been studied in small studies include levetiracetam, zonisamide, clobazam, nitrazepam, acetazolamide, and amantidine (33). A postictal confusional period lasting a few to several minutes followed by a desire to sleep is typical in temporal lobe seizures; however nondominant temporal lobe seizures and those with limited bitemporal involvement may not be associated with a significant postictal period (25,41). Brand-name and generic drug manufacturers typically sell their drugs to drug wholesalers, who in turn sell the drugs to retail pharmacies or to health care providers (such as hospitals, clinics, and physicians). Such asymmetries should not lead to an erroneous diagnosis of partial seizures (56,57).

Grok, 54 years: Prolonged neonatal seizures exacerbate hypoxic-ischemic brain damage: correlation with cerebral energy metabolism and excitatory amino acid release. The enhanced permeability caused by senna leaf infusion is more difficult to explain because of the many different active compounds contained within the extract. Women with autoimmune disease account for the largest proportion of those who developed aplastic anemia. The patient should keep a continuous daily record for at least two months to include the following: · · Day/time of headache Severity of headache · · Duration Onset of menstrual flow Return to Algorithm Return to Table of Contents 91.

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