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MeSH Heading: Drug Resistant Epilepsy
Tree Number(s): C10.228.140.490.125
Unique ID: D000069279
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000069279
Scope Note: Epileptic condition in which adequate trials of two tolerated and appropriately chosen and used ANTIEPILEPTIC DRUGS schedules to achieve sustained seizure freedom failed.
Entry Term(s): Drug Refractory Epilepsy; Epilepsy, Drug Refractory; Epilepsy, Drug Resistant; Epilepsy, Intractable; Intractable Epilepsy; Medication Resistant Epilepsy; Refractory Epilepsy
Previous Indexing: Epilepsy (1968-2015)
Public MeSH Note: 2016
History Note: 2016
Date Established: 2016/01/01
Date of Entry: 2015/07/01
Revision Date: 2017/02/24

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

congenital (CN)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

embryology (EM)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

radiotherapy (RT)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

Concept UI: M000605316
Scope Note: Epileptic condition in which adequate trials of two tolerated and appropriately chosen and used ANTIEPILEPTIC DRUGS schedules to achieve sustained seizure freedom failed.
Terms: Drug Resistant Epilepsy Preferred Term
Term UI T000879280
Date05/06/2015
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2016); Epilepsy, Drug Resistant
Term UI T000879281
Date05/06/2015
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2016); Drug Refractory Epilepsy
Term UI T000879282
Date05/06/2015
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2016); Intractable Epilepsy
Term UI T000879283
Date05/06/2015
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2016); Epilepsy, Drug Refractory
Term UI T000879285
Date05/06/2015
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2016); Epilepsy, Intractable
Term UI T000879286
Date05/06/2015
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2016); Refractory Epilepsy
Term UI T000906790
Date09/07/2016
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2018); Medication Resistant Epilepsy
Term UI T000882556
Date06/26/2015
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2016)

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