by Katrina Carr | Dec 10, 2020 | Pathogenesis
Obstructive sleep apnea more likely in generalized versus focal epilepsy By Adriene Marshall credit: nicolesy/Getty Images By zeroing in on specific etiologies, researchers found that patients with generalized epilepsy have a higher risk of obstructive sleep apnea...
by Katrina Carr | Sep 17, 2019 | Pathogenesis
Autoimmune epilepsy: The roles of APE2 and RITE2 scores By Bruce Jancin MDedge News Up to 20% of new focal-onset epilepsy in adults may have an autoimmune cause. But narrowing down the population of these patients to those most suitable for costly autoantibody testing...
by mzeal | Apr 29, 2019 | Pathogenesis
Comorbid epilepsy linked to gene repeats By M. ALEXANDER OTTO Credit: Tetiana Lazunova/Getty Images Pathogenic autosomal copy number variations were found in about 11% of epilepsy patients with comorbidities and 12.7% when possibly pathogenic variations were included,...
