Epilepsy, Status Epilepticus
<p>Status epilepticus in patients with genetic (idiopathic) generalized epilepsy</p>
... generalized epilepsy with a presumed genetic ...absence epilepsy, juvenile absence epilepsy, juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, and epilepsy with generalized tonic – clonic sei- zures alone ...
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Unprovoked Status Epilepticus: The Prognosis for Otherwise Normal Children With Focal Epilepsy
... with epilepsy implies ambu- lance transport and emergency ...hood Epilepsy population-based ...with epilepsy: otherwise normal children with focal ...
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Prevalence and factors associated with convulsive status epilepticus in Africans with epilepsy
... From Kenya Medical Research Institute – Wellcome Trust Research Programme (S.M.K., E.C., G.K., A.K.N., C.R.J.N.), Kilifi, Kenya; Nuffield Department of Medicine (S.M.K.), University of Oxford, UK; Studies of Epidemiology ...
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Clinical Reasoning: Refractory status epilepticus in a primigravida
... subarachnoid hemorrhage, and dural venous sinus throm- bosis. Headache and seizure raise concern for encephalitis from infectious, autoimmune, or paraneoplastic processes, although less likely in the absence of altered ...
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Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus: The Encephalopathic Pediatric Patient
... In all, 75 patients were included. Elec- tronic medical records were reviewed. Baseline clinical characteristics, im- aging reports, EEG duration and results, hospital course, and outcome were abstracted. Baseline ...
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Functional outcome of prolonged refractory status epilepticus
... anesthesia [4,5]. About 15% of patients admitted to hospital for SE will become super-refractory [1]. Iden- tified risk factors are head trauma, stroke and central nervous system infections [2]. However, super-refractory ...
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Predictors and impact on the outcome of refractory status epilepticus
... (n=4) and carbamazepine (n=4)). But at the moment of admission, the serum levels of these drugs are not known. The other ten patients presented at the emergency room with their first conclusive episode. Four patients had ...
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Profile of generalised convulsive status epilepticus in children
... A febrile seizure lasting for more than 30 min, particularly in a child younger than 3 years of age, is the most common cause of SE. The Idiopathic group includes epileptic patients who have had sudden withdrawal of ...
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Non Convulsive Status Epilepticus: An Elusive Diagnosis
... Non-convulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) has been considered a rare form of SE [15], which is a diagnostic problem unassociated with serious morbidity and death ...Non-convulsive status ...
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Clinical significance of treatment delay in status epilepticus
... The etiology of the SE was classified as cerebrovascular disease, brain tumor, traumatic brain injury (TBI), CNS infection, alcohol, structural lesion, other, or unknown. The majority of the patients with epilepsy ...
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Status Epilepticus in Children: A Study of 54 Cases
... Status epilepticus (SE) is one of the most common emergencies in paediatric neurology and is associated with a high mortality and morbidity, with an inci- dence of 20 per 100,000 children per year [1] ...
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Status epilepticus in the elderly: differential diagnosis and treatment
... of epilepsy, antiepileptic medication compliance, systemic or intracranial malignan- cies, infections, metabolic disorders, toxic ingestions, alcohol use, and recent falls or head ...
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Effects of clobazam for treatment of refractory status epilepticus
... CLB has an interesting pharmacological profile and its role in the treatment of refractory epilepsy is increas- ingly studied [5]. The possibility of nasogastral tube ad- ministration with excellent ...
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Positivity to p-ANCA in patients with status epilepticus
... suggested in this patient [10]. However, the clinical findings as well as the extensive laboratory investigation, including the MRI features (with no characteristic evolutional changes of MRI occurring at long-term ...
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Prognostic Factors of Status Epilepticus in Children
... diagnosed as having epilepsy 1,4 request medical attention for SE. Several clinical series have pres- ented information concerning some important clinical features of SE and predictive indicators of its outcome. ...
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Dexmedetomidine administration in a patient with status epilepticus under color density spectral array monitoring
... for epilepsy treatment [4] state that a seizure lasting 5 min or longer is considered as status epilepticus and initial treatment should be ...for status epilepticus include ...
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Procalcitonin and mortality in status epilepticus: an observational cohort study
... activity [36–38]. Induction of systemic inflammatory reactions by prolonged epileptic seizures is mirrored by changes in cytokine levels, increases in circulating immune cells (e.g., neutrophils, lymphocytes, and nat- ...
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Panayiotopoulos Syndrome: A Benign Childhood Autonomic Epilepsy Frequently Imitating Encephalitis, Syncope, Migraine, Sleep Disorder, or Gastroenteritis
... Autonomic status epilepticus imparts no residual neurologic ...and epilepsy with continuous spike and wave during slow-wave sleep is extremely ...
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The treatment of status epilepticus: Experimental and clinical aspects
... induced status epilepticus (Clifford et ...focal status epilepticus (Clifford et ...f epilepsy after ...f status epilepticus (Fariello et ...Some status ...
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<p>Febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES): prevalence, impact and management strategies</p>
... Refractory status epilepticus following a common febrile episode in the absence of identi fi ed infectious agents is not frequently reported; therefore, it is extremely dif fi cult to extract epidemiological ...
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