Objective: To assess the tolerability of propofol (PF) in Wada test in an Arab population with
temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Methods: This observational study with consecutive sampling …

Abstract Purpose The Wada test is still the gold standard procedure to predict language and
memory deficits before temporal lobe epilepsy surgery. As amobarbital was no longer …

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 …

129 Wada procedures were reviewed to examine the suitability of propofol (n= 54) as a
replacement to amobarbital (n= 75) for use as an anaesthetic in the Wada test. Suitability …

Twenty-five consecutive patients who underwent the Wada test using propofol as anesthetic
were compared with 15 randomly selected patients who were tested using amobarbital …

Objective: To evaluate the usefulness of propofol as an alternative drug to amobarbital for
the Wada test. Methods: The authors analyzed 67 right-handed patients out of 123 patients …

The aim of this study was to assess the type and frequency of adverse events during the
Wada test conducted with propofol as an anaesthetic agent. In total, 122 patients with …

Surgical management of drug-resistant epilepsy is a well-established method and the
lateralization of language and/or memory is essential to avoid resection of the eloquent …

Objective Due to supply shortage, amobarbital, the traditional anesthetic agent in Wada
testing, was replaced by methohexital in many epilepsy centers. This study aimed to …

We describe a patient with equivocal findings on functional MRI (fMRI), who underwent a
propofol Wada test, review the literature on this topic and suggest a protocol for the use of …