Axis 1: Semiology (A) With prominent motor symptoms A.1: Convulsive SE (CSE) A.2: Myoclonic SE A.3: Focal motor SE A.4: Tonic SE A.5: Hyperkinetic SE (B) Without prominent motor symptoms…
Fig. 6.1 Computed tomography (CT) scan of a 16-year-old girl with an earlier history of pansinusitis and a left frontal cerebritis and abscess who had undergone surgical treatment and presents 4 months…
Stroke, including hemorrhagic Low antiepileptic drug levels Alcohol withdrawal Drug withdrawal (benzodiazepine, barbiturate) Anoxic brain injury Metabolic disturbances Infection (bacterial meningitis, herpes encephalitis, brain abscess) Traumatic brain injury Brain neoplasm…
Fig. 9.1 Magnetic resonance imaging alterations (a–c) in brain atrophy after severe super-refractory status epilepticus. LEV levetiracetam; VPA valproic acid; LCS lacosamide; PROP propofol; MDZ midazolam; TPM topiramate; MRI magnetic resonance…
Location of study, Reference, (year published) N Annual incidence (per 100,000) Epilepsy prior to SE Most common etiology Mortality/case fatality rate (%) Other Richmond, Virginia DeLorenzo et al. [20] (1995)…
© Springer Science+Business Media LLC 2018Frank W. Drislane and Peter W. Kaplan MBBS (eds.)Status EpilepticusCurrent Clinical Neurologyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58200-9_25 25. Consequences of Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus: Experimental and Clinical Evidence Karthik Rajasekaran2 and Howard P. Goodkin1 (1) Departments of Neurology and…
Adults Children References Following convulsive status epilepticus 48% 26–57% [21, 25, 29–34] Epilepsy-related 33–39% 11–71% [20–28] Sepsis-associated encephalopathy 32% 58% [16–19] Recent neurosurgical procedures 23% 71% [22, 28, 38]…
Absence status epilepticus (ASE) Typical absence status epilepticus (in the IGEs) de novo absence status epilepticus (in the elderly) Atypical absence status epilepticus Simple partial status epilepticus (SPSE) Complex partial…
Cognitive sign Definition References Asomatognosia Failure to recognize a body part as being one’s own Thomas et al. [2], Feinberg et al. [3] and Nishibayashi et al. [4] Anosagnosia Lack…
The sequential EEG patterns Definition of EEG patterns 1. Discrete seizures Focal low-voltage fast activity which increases in amplitude, spreads across the midline, and then slows in discharge frequency. Generalized…
