drug therapy Drug therapy

Epilepsy is mainly treated using drugs.

Sixty percent of all epilepsy patients treated with anti-epileptic drugs become seizure free.

Operative Therapy

Epileptic surgery removes the focus of the epilepsy, i.e. the part of the brain where the seizures are triggered.

Epilepsy surgery
from: U. Altrup, U. Specht: Informationstafeln Epilepsie.
Novartis Pharma Verlag 1997

 
 

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