[PDF] Top 20 A Study on Acute Symptomatic Seizures in the Elderly.

... with acute symptomatic seizures .Seizures due to metabolic and withdrawal states, treatment with anticonvulsants is usually not necessary as long as the underlying disturbance is ...recurrent ... See full document

... This study was limited by several ...for elderly patients with AC was not determined in this ...in elderly patients [16, ...for elderly patients with ...in elderly people in the ... See full document

... Conclusion: Acute symptomatic seizures were more common in males than females and in 40 – 60 years of ...of acute symptomatic seizures, followed by Acute CNS ...related ... See full document

... this study was to compare the prevalence of risk factors of IHD between elderly and non-elderly patients who had been admitted to hospital for the first attack of Acute Myocardial Infarction ... See full document

... Tumors contributed to 12.67% of etiologies in this study. Of the 19 patients with tumors, 16 had primary CNS tumor against three patients diagnosed to have secondaries. Tumor as etiology in various studies are as ... See full document

... generalized convulsions produce a rise in serum creatine kinase activity that persists for hours, a finding that could be used to greater advantage in emergency departments to assist in distinguishing seizures ... See full document

... This study focusing on AAD found low total magnese- mia and calcemia. Mg total circulating levels were markedly lower in AAD patients than controls (Fig. 1a) and the pattern was similar for total Ca (Fig. 1b). Be- ... See full document

... The role of imaging studies depends on the stage of evaluation. Immediately after a seizure, computed tomography can detect the presence of bleeding or gross structural lesions. However, magnetic resonance imaging is the ... See full document

... a study conducted by Feit et ...This study used 75 years old as the cutoff point for age for the ...the study population 690 patients were diabetic and 75 years of age or older, and were divided as ... See full document

... and seizures [5]. However, a study of 90 brain biopsies un- dertaken between 1989 and 2003 for the investigation of de- mentia found that 57% were diagnostic, the most frequent diagnosis being Alzheimer’s ... See full document

... of acute seizures in resource-limited ...clinical seizures, eLVT was rapidly absorbed and well ...dose-finding study, 7/7 children re- ceiving the first planned eLVT dose achieved seizure ... See full document

... Seizures are common disorders found all over the world and are encountered frequently during medical practice in variety of settings. Etiological spectrum of acute symptomatic seizures in ... See full document

... Acute seizures remained associated with behavioural and emotional problems, externalising problems and interna- lising problems after accounting for potential demo- graphic and non-seizure ...with ... See full document

... Our study shows that elderly patients are at much higher risk of developing ABM than younger ...for elderly people include a higher chance of having received out-of-hospital antibiotic ther- apy, ... See full document

... the study sample size to have at least 10 observations (patients) for each potential prognostic factor tested, 16 potentially prognostic independent variables were selected: age, gender, BMI, SBP, GFR, hemoglobin ... See full document

... of seizures in 3-6% of patients (30, ...of seizures compared to ischemic infarction. Thus elderly patients, who are confused at the beginning and those who do have an early seizure (<1 week after ... See full document

... of acute, uncomplicated ...our study was not the management of acute appendicitis in elderly patients, but after reviewing the literature, we think that the non operative management of ... See full document

... Acute symptomatic seizures are those caused or provoked by an acute medical or neurological insult and it is as common as epilepsy in the medical ...wards. Acute symptomatic ... See full document

... This study was supported by grants from National Key Clinical Specialties Construction Program of China (No [2013]544), National Key Technology Research and Development Pro- gram of the Ministry of Science and ... See full document

... The study “Demographic, clinical, investigational and etiological profile of acute symptomatic seizures” was a cross sectional study of 200 patients admitted with first episode ... See full document