Refractory epilepsy; when medicines can not do anything

• April 25, 2024

How has our life changed? ...

Before a room crowded with journalists and photographers, who wait expectantly for their response. Victoria looks at her son, and as if her warmth is contagious, she hugs him while saying:

It did not really change, because it was after the implantation of the vagus nerve stimulation that we started to live ... From seven months and two weeks of age, when Miguel was diagnosed with epilepsy , our existence became a neurologist and crisis susceptions (25 seizures per day with a duration of 8 minutes each)”.

 

Video Medicine: Intractable Epilepsy in Children - Mayo Clinic (April 2024).