ILAE-Eastern Mediterranean
Aims
- Promote epilepsy education by organizing epilepsy courses
- Epilepsy care and patient education
- Translational research
- Increase the number of chapters in the region
EMR educational webinars
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SUDEP Update - and - Epilepsy Surgery
25 September 2020.
Conduite à tenir devant une première crise épileptique
6 October 2020
Ketogenic Diet -- and -- Neonatal Seizure Classification
23 October 2020
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Latest News
Clinical Research
Impact of predictive, preventive and precision medicine strategies in epilepsy
The anti-seizure medications used to treat patients with epilepsy can improve symptoms but do not address the underlying cause of the condition. In this Review, the authors discuss the ongoing shift towards personalized treatments for specific epilepsy aetiologies.
1 December, 2020
Clinical Research
Pharmacologic treatment and SUDEP risk
These results provide support for the importance of medication adherence and intensified AED treatment for patients with poorly controlled GTCS in the effort to reduce SUDEP risk and suggest that comedication with statins may reduce risk.
4 November, 2020
Clinical Research
International consensus recommendations on the diagnostic work-up for malformations of cortical development
In this article, the international MCD network Neuro-MIG provides consensus recommendations to aid both expert and non-expert clinicians in the diagnostic work-up of MCDs with the aim of improving patient management worldwide.
28 October, 2020
About ILAE
2019 ILAE Annual Report now available
The ILAE has continued to evolve over the past 110 years, seeking to fulfill its mission to provide healthcare professionals with the information to work toward a world where no person's life is limited by epilepsy. 2019 ILAE Annual Report: See the details of the accomplishments in reports from…
15 October, 2020
About ILAE
Spotlight on the Swiss League Against Epilepsy
The Swiss League Against Epilepsy is using posters, online ads, a short film, and floor stickers to give people the important message that helping during a seizure is easy, and can prevent injury.
13 October, 2020
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