Intractable Epilepsy - Revision history

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imported>Lauren: New page: == Of the 2.2 million Americans with epilepsy, approximately 30% have intractable epilepsy and continue to have seizures despite treatment with medications. ==

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New page: == Of the 2.2 million Americans with epilepsy, approximately 30% have intractable epilepsy and continue to have seizures despite treatment with medications. ==

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== Of the 2.2 million Americans with epilepsy, approximately 30% have intractable epilepsy and continue to have seizures despite treatment with medications.
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 '''Of the 2.2 million Americans with epilepsy, approximately 30% have intractable epilepsy and continue to have seizures despite treatment with medications.''' http://www.naec-epilepsy.org/documents/naecbrochureinpdf.pdf
-'''LB estimates that the State of TX is home to approximately 1.97 million epilepsy patients.'''
+'''LB estimates that the State of TX is home to approximately 197,000 epilepsy patients.'''
-*Of those patients, as many as 655 thousand may be suffering from I.E.
+*Of those patients, as many as 65 thousand may be suffering from I.E.
 *According to TX SB 339, a patient must be evaluated by two physicians to get a prescription for CBD oils.

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 '''LB estimates that the State of TX is home to approximately 1.97 million epilepsy patients.'''
 *Of those patients, as many as 655 thousand may be suffering from I.E.
-*According to SB 339, a patient must be evaluated by two physicians to get a prescription for CBD oils.
+*According to TX SB 339, a patient must be evaluated by two physicians to get a prescription for CBD oils.

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	'''LB estimates that the State of TX is home to approximately 1.97 million epilepsy patients.'''		'''LB estimates that the State of TX is home to approximately 1.97 million epilepsy patients.'''
	*Of those patients, as many as 655 thousand may be suffering from I.E.		*Of those patients, as many as 655 thousand may be suffering from I.E.
		+	*According to SB 339, a patient must be evaluated by two physicians to get a prescription for CBD oils.

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 When confronted with refractory seizures, various courses of action become available to physicians and to patients. The doctor can reevaluate the diagnosis and the medication therapy. The person with epilepsy can consider strategies for remembering to take medications and reduction of precipitating factors, if any. When medications do not work, then non-medication therapy for the epilepsy can be considered, including epilepsy surgery or vagal nerve stimulation.
-Surgery is a reasonable option for people with refractory epilepsy, provided that the seizure origin in the brain can be localized to one region, and that region is safe to remove. Success rates for cessation or near-cessation of seizures ranges from about 50-90%, depending upon the cause of seizures and their brain location. Epilepsy surgery is elective surgery, meaning that it is a matter of personal choice, not necessity.
+Surgery is a reasonable option for people with refractory epilepsy, provided that the seizure origin in the brain can be localized to one region, and that region is safe to remove. Success rates for cessation or near-cessation of seizures ranges from about 50-90%, depending upon the cause of seizures and their brain location. Epilepsy surgery is elective surgery, meaning that it is a matter of personal choice, not necessity. https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neurosurgery/for-patients/conditions/intractable-epilepsy.aspx
-'''Of the 2.2 million Americans with epilepsy, approximately 30% have intractable epilepsy and continue to have seizures despite treatment with medications.'''
+'''Of the 2.2 million Americans with epilepsy, approximately 30% have intractable epilepsy and continue to have seizures despite treatment with medications.''' http://www.naec-epilepsy.org/documents/naecbrochureinpdf.pdf
 '''LB estimates that the State of TX is home to approximately 1.97 million epilepsy patients.'''
 *Of those patients, as many as 655 thousand may be suffering from I.E.

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 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's website:
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 *About 150,000 new cases of epilepsy will be diagnosed in the United States each year.
 *Epilepsy results in an estimated annual cost of $15.5 billion in medical costs and lost or reduced earnings and production.
 '''LB estimates that the State of TX is home to approximately 1.97 million epilepsy patients.'''
 *Of those patients, as many as 655 thousand may be suffering from I.E.

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	*About 150,000 new cases of epilepsy will be diagnosed in the United States each year.		*About 150,000 new cases of epilepsy will be diagnosed in the United States each year.
	*Epilepsy results in an estimated annual cost of $15.5 billion in medical costs and lost or reduced earnings and production.		*Epilepsy results in an estimated annual cost of $15.5 billion in medical costs and lost or reduced earnings and production.
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		+	'''LB estimates that the State of TX is home to approximately 1.97 million epilepsy patients.'''
		+	*Of those patients, as many as 655 thousand may be suffering from I.E.

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		+	According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's website:
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		+	*Epilepsy is a chronic neurological condition characterized by recurrent seizures.
		+	*Epilepsy affects about 2.3 million adults and 467,711 children 0-17 years of age in the United States.
		+	*About 1 in 26 people will be diagnosed with epilepsy at some point in their lives.
		+	*About 150,000 new cases of epilepsy will be diagnosed in the United States each year.
		+	*Epilepsy results in an estimated annual cost of $15.5 billion in medical costs and lost or reduced earnings and production.

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