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Samuel Wiebe
Researcher at University of Calgary
Publications - 275
Citations - 33368
Samuel Wiebe is an academic researcher from University of Calgary. The author has contributed to research in topics: Epilepsy & Epilepsy surgery. The author has an hindex of 62, co-authored 253 publications receiving 26314 citations. Previous affiliations of Samuel Wiebe include Foothills Medical Centre & University of Western Ontario.
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ILAE Official Report: A practical clinical definition of epilepsy
Robert S. Fisher,Carlos Acevedo,Alexis Arzimanoglou,Alicia Bogacz,J. Helen Cross,Christian E. Elger,Jerome Engel,Lars Forsgren,Jacqueline A. French,Mike Glynn,Dale C. Hesdorffer,Byung In Lee,Gary W. Mathern,Solomon L. Moshé,Emilio Perucca,Ingrid E. Scheffer,Torbjörn Tomson,Masako Watanabe,Samuel Wiebe +18 more
TL;DR: A revised definition of epilepsy brings the term in concordance with common use for individuals who either had an age‐dependent epilepsy syndrome but are now past the applicable age or who have remained seizure‐free for the last 10 years and off antiseizure medicines for at least the last 5 years.
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Definition of drug resistant epilepsy: consensus proposal by the ad hoc Task Force of the ILAE Commission on Therapeutic Strategies.
Patrick Kwan,Alexis Arzimanoglou,Anne T. Berg,Martin J. Brodie,W. Allen Hauser,Gary W. Mathern,Solomon L. Moshé,Emilio Perucca,Samuel Wiebe,Jacqueline A. French +9 more
TL;DR: It is proposed as a testable hypothesis that drug resistant epilepsy is defined as failure of adequate trials of two tolerated, appropriately chosen and used antiepileptic drug schedules to achieve sustained seizure freedom.
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A randomized, controlled trial of surgery for temporal-lobe epilepsy.
TL;DR: In temporal-lobe epilepsy, surgery is superior to prolonged medical therapy, and Randomized trials of surgery for epilepsy are feasible and appear to yield precise estimates of treatment effects.
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ILAE classification of the epilepsies: Position paper of the ILAE Commission for Classification and Terminology.
Ingrid E. Scheffer,Samuel F. Berkovic,Giuseppe Capovilla,Mary B. Connolly,Jacqueline A. French,Laura Maria de Figueiredo Ferreira Guilhoto,Edouard Hirsch,Satish Jain,Gary W. Mathern,Solomon L. Moshé,Douglas R. Nordli,Emilio Perucca,Torbjörn Tomson,Samuel Wiebe,Yuehua Zhang,Sameer M. Zuberi,Sameer M. Zuberi +16 more
TL;DR: The International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) Classification of the Epilepsies has been updated to reflect our gain in understanding of the epilepsies and their underlying mechanisms following the major scientific advances that have taken place since the last ratified classification in 1989 as mentioned in this paper.
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Prevalence and incidence of epilepsy: A systematic review and meta-analysis of international studies.
Kirsten M. Fiest,Khara M. Sauro,Samuel Wiebe,Scott B. Patten,Churl-Su Kwon,Jonathan Dykeman,Tamara Pringsheim,Diane L. Lorenzetti,Nathalie Jette +8 more
TL;DR: This study provides a comprehensive synthesis of the prevalence and incidence of epilepsy from published international studies and offers insight into factors that contribute to heterogeneity between estimates.