status epilepticus
Status epilepticus following local anesthesia in a previously healthy adult
... No follow up MRI was requested. However, a follow up brain CT scan was performed a week later and was com- pletely normal. Consequently, MRI changes were prob- ably transient changes due to the status ...
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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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Dexmedetomidine administration in a patient with status epilepticus under color density spectral array monitoring
... Status epilepticus, considered the most extreme form of seizure, requires immediate treatment, usually with benzo- diazepines, because treatment delay can cause permanent neurologic complications ...
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Procalcitonin and mortality in status epilepticus: an observational cohort study
... Results: In 91 SE patients, mortality was 23.1 % during hospital stay and at 30-days follow-up. Infections emerged in 30.8 % of patients. In the multivariable analysis, PCT predicted unfavorable outcome independently ...
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Non-Convulsive Status Epilepticus (NCSE) in ICU
... 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 with continuous spike ...
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Status Epilepticus: A Possible Association With Human Metapneumovirus Infection
... seizure presented with a fever and in status epilepticus. Her history was no- table for decreased oral intake and subjective fever for a few hours before the onset of generalized tonic-clonic convulsions. ...
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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
... 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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Positivity to p-ANCA in patients with status epilepticus
... Background: Status epilepticus (SE) may occur in the setting of several internal or neurologic diseases. Anti-neutrophilic cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) are a group of Ig that may be observed in patients ...
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Effects of clobazam for treatment of refractory status epilepticus
... Treatment of refractory status epilepticus (RSE) fre- quently requires application of more than three antiepi- leptic drugs (AEDs). As there is a limited number of intravenous AEDs, orally administered AEDs ...
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Status epilepticus in the elderly: differential diagnosis and treatment
... nonconvulsive status epilepticus includes encephalopathic conditions and degenerative illnesses such as Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease which may present with a similar altered ...
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Comparison of levetiracetam as a second line drug in place of fosphenytoin in status epilepticus among children
... included adverse events to treatment, in-hospital complications and neurological outcome during discharge. All patients were monitored for vitals, ECG, seizure activity and GCS where ever required every 5 minutes for 2 ...
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Childhood status epilepticus: Structural consequences and assessment of a novel treatment
... possible that prolonged convulsions, whether they are febrile or non-febrile, are more damaging to the hippocampus than other initial events. Such an explanation would suggest that the findings in this study are simply a ...
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Prevalence and factors associated with convulsive status epilepticus in Africans with epilepsy
... Risk factors associated with status epilepticus. Several factors were associated with a higher probability of having CSE in those with ACE compared to those with ACE without CSE in the pooled analysis ...
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The paradox of informed consent issues in paediatric status epilepticus research
... This thesis has explored the paradox of informed consent in paediatric status epilepticus (SE) research, with the aim of improving management of the condition in Australia and New Zealand. As in many areas ...
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Levetiracetam versus phenytoin for treatment of convulsive status epilepticus in pediatric population: a randomized controlled trial
... relative effectiveness of antiepileptic drugs in treatment of benzodiazepine resistant convulsive status epilepticus by Yasiry Z and Shorvon et al, SD et al also reveals similar results, but the efficacy of ...
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Convulsive status epilepticus in children
... of status epilepticus survived with a mortality of ...and status epilepticus simultaneously could result not only in mortality and also have an impact on the final neurological ...of ...
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Prognostic Factors of Status Epilepticus in Children
... The study group included all patients younger than 15 years of age who were admitted with a diagnosis of status epilepticus to the Department of Pediatric Neurology, Yonsei University College of Medicine ...
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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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Status Epilepticus – A recent review
... convulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) is status epilepticus without obvious clonic ...Refractory status epilepticus tatus epilepticus that continues despite treatment with ...
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