Non-Convulsive Status Epilepticus
Non Convulsive Status Epilepticus: An Elusive Diagnosis
... Absence status is the most common form of non-convulsive status epilepticus and is characterized by confusion with varying degrees of memory loss and cognitive ...6-month status ...
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A Descriptive Analysis of Prognostic Indicators in Patients with Non Convulsive Status Epilepticus in a Tertiary Hospital Population
... of non-convulsive status epilepticus ...of status epilepticus ...of non-convulsive seizures provide a rational for the importance of timely diagnosis ...
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Thyroid stimulating hormone elevation misdiagnosed as subclinical hypothyroidism following non convulsive status epilepticus: a case report
... Non-convulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) is a condition primarily diagnosed through electroencephalography ...reported non-convulsive complex partial status ...
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Non-Convulsive Status Epilepticus (NCSE) in ICU
... seizures. Non-convulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) is defined as a persistent change in mental status as opposed to the previous conditions, lasted at least 30 minutes long, associated ...
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Non-convulsive Status Epilepticus in Children, Electro-Clinical Profile and Response to a Specific Treatment Protocol
... The present protocol with initial oral AED treatment followed by 8 to 12 hours infusion of MDZ and close electro-clinical monitoring probably ensures complete recovery of the status. Return of the baseline ...
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The new wave: time to bring EEG to the emergency department
... Non-convulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) was shown to occur in more than a third of patients with unexplained AMS [1]. NCSE may present a diagnostic challenge when an EEG is unavailable in the ...
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Emergency treatment with levetiracetam or phenytoin in status epilepticus in children—the EcLiPSE study: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
... Levetiracetam is a broad-spectrum anticonvulsant which effectively treats focal and generalised tonic-clonic and myoclonic seizures. A growing body of evidence, predominantly but not exclusively anecdotal, suggests that ...
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Prognostic Factors of Status Epilepticus in Children
... with status epilepticus (SE) between April, 1994 and April, ...generalized convulsive SE in 73.5%, and non-convulsive SE in ...generalized convulsive SE ...generalized ...
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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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Status Epilepticus in Children: A Study of 54 Cases
... Utilizing the advice definitions, 54 patients were selected, 47 patients had ge- neralized convulsive status (grand mal), 2 patients had partial SE, 3 patients had non-convulsive SE and 2 ...
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Predictors and impact on the outcome of refractory status epilepticus
... refractory status epilepticus is a life threatening condition, there is no standard drug or standard protocol for its treatment and also treatment varies from institution to ...Refractory Status ...
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Functional outcome of prolonged refractory status epilepticus
... We retrospectively evaluated the data on PRSE treated in the ICU from 1 January 2001 to 31 December 2011. One hundred and thirty French adult ICUs on a list published by the French Language Society of Critical Care ...
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What is the easier and more reliable dose calculation for iv Phenytoin in children at risk of developing convulsive status epilepticus, 18 mg/kg or 20 mg/kg?
... ‘Status Epilepticus Working Party’ for treating and preventing status epilepticus by treating prolonged convulsive seizures (lasting more that 5 or 10 minutes) in children in the UK, ...
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Clinical Reasoning: Refractory status epilepticus in a primigravida
... for status epilepticus (SE) with 2 seizures without return to baseline in between, and was transferred to the neurologic intensive care unit, where continuous EEG revealed nonconvulsive electrographic SE ...
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Status Epilepticus in Children With Epilepsy: The Role of Antiepileptic Drug Levels in Prevention
... Status Epilepticus in Children With Epilepsy: The Role of Antiepileptic Drug Levels. Services[r] ...
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Neuroprotective effect of therapeutic hypothermia versus standard care alone after convulsive status epilepticus: protocol of the multicentre randomised controlled trial HYBERNATUS
... Therapeutic hypothermia has shown both anticon- vulsant and neuroprotective properties after SE in experimental studies. In rats, hypothermia at 32–34 °C decreased the incidence of both seizures and associ- ated local ...
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Positivity to p-ANCA in patients with status epilepticus
... A 48-year-old man was diagnosed AAV with extracapil- lary necrotizing glomerulonephritis confirmed by labora- tory analyses and kidney biopsy. He was treated with a single iv bolus of cyclophosphamide 5 mg and iv methyl- ...
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Status epilepticus in the elderly: differential diagnosis and treatment
... of status epilepticus is much greater in the elderly than in younger ...populations. Status epilepticus is a neurologic emergency and requires prompt intervention to minimize morbidity and ...
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Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus: The Encephalopathic Pediatric Patient
... EEG to evaluate for NCSE were identi- fi ed using 2 methods: (1) the EEG da- tabase was searched by diagnosis for the term “ NCSE ” within the date range of January 1, 2005, through June 30, 2010. There were 25 354 EEGs ...
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Clinical significance of treatment delay in status epilepticus
... Status epilepticus (SE) is a medical emergency that requires rapid diagnosis and treatment. Both clinical studies and empirical experience indicate a variation in treatment practices and treatment delays in ...
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