... decades. Not only does EEG allow seizure or status epilepticus detection, which in the ICU often present without clinical movements, but it is also paramount for the prognostic evaluation of comatose patients, especially after cardiac arrest, and for detecting delayed ischemia after subarachnoid...

...Fang Yuan; Ruihua Jia; Qiong Gao; Fang Yang; Xiai Yang; Yongli Jiang; Wen Li; Lara V. Marcuse; Wen Jiang Background: Drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) is a common and serious consequence of convulsive status epilepticus (CSE). Little is known on the early prediction of DRE development after CSE. Our...

...Lichao Sun; Chuntao Han; Weihong Lin Objective: Status epilepticus (SE) is a neurological emergency that may cause severe neurological deficiency and even death. The aim of this study was to analyze the clinical characteristics and prognosis of SE in northeast China. Additionally, the etiology...

... of auto-antibodies (AB) have been detected in the CSF and serum of patients with new onset epilepsy. Some of these patients develop convulsive or nonconvulsive status epilepticus (AB-SE), necessitating intensive medical care and administration of multiple antiepileptic and immunomodulatory treatments...

...J. De Reuck; G. Van Maele Background: Status epilepticus (SE) is a life-threatening condition that occurs in only 1.5% of the overall stroke population but in more than 10% of patients with stroke-related seizures. This retrospective study compares the characteristics of stroke patients with SE...

...Alberto Primavera; Vittoria M. Gianelli; Fabio Bandini Aphasia due to simple partial status epilepticus is rare. We report a case of prolonged mixed aphasia without clouding of consciousness in a patient with an old history (10 years) of multiple sclerosis (MS). We found a clear clinical-EEG...

... were related to lacunar strokes. Status epilepticus occurred in 20.7% of the ES, in 11.7% of the LS and in 2.1% of the VLS patients. Seizure recurrences were 13.8% in the ES, 54.7% in the LS and 34.0% in the VLS group. Neurological impairment, at stroke onset, and the degree of disability were more...

...Alberto Primavera; Gian-Paolo Bo; Simonetta Venturi We studied a case of focal status epilepticus with aphasia as the sole manifestation, lasting 21 days. A 77-year-old woman developed aphasic seizures followed by aphasic status epilepticus 10 months after a left temporo-occipital hemorrhage...

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...T. Sacquegna; P. Pazzaglia; A. Baldrati; P. De Carolis; R. Gallassi; M. Maccheroni A 16-ycar-old patient who had a history of complex partial seizures, had frequent episodes of status epilepticus with diffuse slow-wave discharges. The clinical manifestations were apparently insignificant due...

...Andrea O. Rossetti; Edward B. Bromfield Treatment of status epilepticus (SE) has changed little over the last two decades, but the burden of this condition remains important. There is thus a need for alternative pharmacological therapies. Levetiracetam (LEV) has a wide spectrum of action...

... early after anoxia has been identified as a poor prognostic factor. We report a series of patients who developed postanoxic myoclonus status epilepticus (MSE), which was defined as continuous myoclonic seizure activity lasting 30 min or more. The results from 18 patients were retrieved, 11 men and 7...