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Health Encyclopedia: Epilepsy Outlook And Effects
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Outlook and Effects
General Outlook for Patients with Epilepsy
Most patients can control their seizures with a single drug and stop drug treatment completely after 2 seizureless years. In fact, the sooner patients achieve remission using an anti-epileptic drug (AED), the better their chances for remaining seizure-free in the future. If epilepsy is not effectively treated, and if the patient has continuing seizures, changes in the neurons may eventually cause intractable, or refractive, epilepsy. T...
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Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Introduction
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The time between exposure to the virus and eruption of symptoms is called the incubation period. For chicken pox, this period is 10 - 20 days. The patient often develops fever, headache,... Read more »Images
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