Controversies in Caring for Women with Epilepsy Sorting Through the
This text presents difficult management issues surrounding women with epilepsy in a unique format. The Editors provide several controversial cases in adolescence, pre-conception, pregnancy and menopause with invited experts offering their differing opinio
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Controversies in Caring for Women with Epilepsy
Mona Sazgar • Cynthia L. Harden Editors
Controversies in Caring for Women with Epilepsy Sorting Through the Evidence
Editors Mona Sazgar, M.D. Clinical Professor Department of Neurology University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA, USA
Cynthia L. Harden, M.D. System Director of Epilepsy Services Mount Sinai Health System Mount Sinai Beth Israel Phillips Ambulatory Care Center New York, NY, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-29168-0 ISBN 978-3-319-29170-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-29170-3
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Foreword
“Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.”—Albert Einstein
Research on issues relating to women with epilepsy has expanded tremendously in the last two decades. Knowledge gained from the research has led to guidelines in the care of women with epilepsy. Major general neurology and epilepsy conferences consistently highlight topics regarding women with epilepsy. Yet, the care of each woman with epilepsy often requires more than knowledge and data. Clinical judgment that is evidence-supported is required to enable the selection and development of therapeutic strategies that may be suitable for each woman with epilepsy. The science of medicine based on data is often imperfect and insufficient to command a single therapeutic approach to a clinical scenario. This is where the art of medicine should come in—where the eye of the mind could critically appreciate the distinction and the overlap between therapeutic options that are reasonably viable for a specific clinical situation. In this book, Dr. Sazgar and Dr. Harden have skillfully identified clinical scenarios that specially challenge clinicians to use scientific evi
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