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Epilepsy Research and Treatment
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 654265, 7 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/654265
Clinical Study

What Do Changes in Brain Perfusion Induced by Etomidate Suggest about Epilepsy in Human Patients?

Ivan Herrera-Peco,1,2,3 Rybel Wix Ramos,4 Luis Domínguez-Gadea,5 María Luisa Meilán,6 José Luis Martínez-Chacón,6 Eva de Dios,6 Rafael G. Sola,1 and Jesús Pastor3,4

1Neurosurgery, The Epilepsy Unit, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, 28006 Madrid, Spain
2Foundation for Biomedical Research, The Epilepsy Unit, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, 28006 Madrid, Spain
3School of Medicine, San Pablo-CEU University, Madrid, Spain
4Clinical Neurophysiology, The Epilepsy Unit, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, 28006 Madrid, Spain
5Nuclear Medicine, The Epilepsy Unit, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, 28006 Madrid, Spain
6Anesthesiology, The Epilepsy Unit, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, 28006 Madrid, Spain

Received 21 August 2009; Revised 10 November 2009; Accepted 13 April 2010

Academic Editor: Louis Lemieux

Copyright © 2010 Ivan Herrera-Peco et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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