Weighing Successes and Challenges in the Establishment of Additional Epilepsy Monitoring Units at the Saudi Arabian Kingdom's Capital City

Epilepsy has a prevalence rate of 6.54 per 1,000 people in Saudi Arabia, making it a prevalent chronic condition. Drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) is thought to affect one-third of patients; in these circumstances, a complete presurgical examination in the epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU) is necessary. U...

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Autor principal: Al-Attas, Alawi A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Neurology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10259730/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37313106
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38924
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description Epilepsy has a prevalence rate of 6.54 per 1,000 people in Saudi Arabia, making it a prevalent chronic condition. Drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) is thought to affect one-third of patients; in these circumstances, a complete presurgical examination in the epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU) is necessary. Unfortunately, to accommodate the growing number of referrals, the units' availability and number must be reviewed.
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spelling pubmed-102597302023-06-13 Weighing Successes and Challenges in the Establishment of Additional Epilepsy Monitoring Units at the Saudi Arabian Kingdom's Capital City Al-Attas, Alawi A Cureus Neurology Epilepsy has a prevalence rate of 6.54 per 1,000 people in Saudi Arabia, making it a prevalent chronic condition. Drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) is thought to affect one-third of patients; in these circumstances, a complete presurgical examination in the epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU) is necessary. Unfortunately, to accommodate the growing number of referrals, the units' availability and number must be reviewed. Cureus 2023-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC10259730/ /pubmed/37313106 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38924 Text en Copyright © 2023, Al-Attas et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title Weighing Successes and Challenges in the Establishment of Additional Epilepsy Monitoring Units at the Saudi Arabian Kingdom's Capital City
title_full Weighing Successes and Challenges in the Establishment of Additional Epilepsy Monitoring Units at the Saudi Arabian Kingdom's Capital City
title_fullStr Weighing Successes and Challenges in the Establishment of Additional Epilepsy Monitoring Units at the Saudi Arabian Kingdom's Capital City
title_full_unstemmed Weighing Successes and Challenges in the Establishment of Additional Epilepsy Monitoring Units at the Saudi Arabian Kingdom's Capital City
title_short Weighing Successes and Challenges in the Establishment of Additional Epilepsy Monitoring Units at the Saudi Arabian Kingdom's Capital City
title_sort weighing successes and challenges in the establishment of additional epilepsy monitoring units at the saudi arabian kingdom's capital city
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10259730/
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