Epilepsy
UM Health-West’s Epilepsy Clinic has a dedicated team specialized in the diagnosis and management of epilepsy.
Services Provided:
- Diagnosis of seizures or epilepsy and seizure mimics
- Management of patients with first time seizure or recurrent seizures
- Management of epilepsy in women and during pregnancy
- Management of VNS (vagal nerve stimulator), a device which may lessen the seizures burden in patients with refractory/difficult to treat seizures
Diagnostic Testing Offered
- Outpatient routine, extended and ambulatory electroencephalography studies (EEGs)
- Inpatient epilepsy monitoring unit with 24/7 neuromonitoring technologist and specially trained nursing staff
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) with epilepsy protocol
- Positron Emission Tomography (PET) studies
