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The Wada test with propofol in a patient with epilepsy
2000
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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The usual drug used in the Wada test is amobarbital, but it is not available in Brazil. Propofol was already used by Bazin et al. in 1998, and in their report the test resulted good in the absence of any adverse effect. We report the use of propofol as the anesthetic for the Wada test. The test was carried out in a 26 years old woman with temporal medial lobe epilepsy refractory to medical treatment. Language functions and memory were tested after injection in both hemispheres by three
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2000000200024
pmid:10849639
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