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Clinical Utility of Genetic Diagnosis in Drug-Resistant Epilepsy: Refining Classification and Guiding Therapy in an Egyptian Cohort.
Clinical genetics - 1 Jun 2026
Sharaf-Eldin Wessam E, Kishk Nirmeen A, Eissa Noura R, El-Bagoury Nagham M, Fouad Amr Mohamed, Mounir Nesma, Shamloul Reham, El Saied Mostafa M, Abdelraouf Ehab R, Hassan Heba A, Essawi Mona L
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Recent advances in epilepsy genetics have revolutionized the diagnosis and management of patients. This study was conducted to evaluate the clinical significance of molecular diagnosis in Egyptian patients with pediatric-onset drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE). All patients lacked electro-clinic-radiological concordant lesions and therefore were not candidates for surgical intervention. More than 70% of cases had...
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