The definition of medically refractory epilepsy is any patient who has failed two or more appropriately chosen and dosed antiseizure medications with the failure of the med not due to side effects. Any patient who is medically refractory should be referred to an epilepsy center for evaluation of pot...

There are new recommendations from the ILAE recently and I am quoting the three major points here: Surgical evaluation should be offered to every patient with drug-resistant epilepsy (up to 70 years of age), as soon as drug resistance is ascertained, regardless of epilepsy duration, sex, socioecono...