Despite the unpredictability of epileptic seizures, many patients report that they can anticipate seizure occurrence. Using certain alert symptoms (i.e., auras, prodromes, precipitant factors), patients can adopt behaviors to avoid injury during and after the seizure or may implement spontaneous cognitive and emotional strategies to try to control the seizure itself. From the patient's view poi...

Corresponding Author: Heydarian F. MD Pediatric ward,Ghaem hospital Mashhad Cell Phone: +98 915 5155126 Tel: +98 511 8012469 Email:[email protected] Abstract Objective Simple febrile seizures are the most common form of childhood seizures, often recurring within the first twenty-four hours. This study was conducted to determine the probable role of low serum sodium levels in predicting seiz...

BACKGROUND Risk factors associated with early seizure after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) were examined. The role of tranexamic acid in seizure development was evaluated. METHODS Early seizure was defined as a seizure occurring within 24 hours of CPB, without neurologic deficit or new lesion on brain imaging. Independent determinants of early seizure were examined by multivariate logistic regr...

Objective Withdrawal of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) is commonly applied to capture seizures in video-EEG (vEEG) monitoring for patients with infrequent but intractable seizures. Because of the half-life of AEDs, AED withdrawal during only vEEG tends to be inadequate to provoke seizures within the vEEG admission. We hypothesize that prewithdrawal of long-half-life AEDs in premonitoring admission ...

Background: Epilepsy is a chronic disease characterized by the occurrence of recurrent non provoked epileptic seizures. This condition affects quality life those affected as well their caregivers’ not only itself but also because comorbidity. It requires daily care and continuous use anti seizure medication at specific times day.

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: to evaluate seizure characteristic among multiple sclerosis patients with coexistent seizure activity compared to control group. materials and methods: this study is a cross-sectional study which was conducted by reviewing the clinical records of patients with definite diagnosis of ms according to mcdonald’s criteria from march 2007 to j...

BACKGROUND Seizure is a common complication for severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). Valproic acid (VPA) is a first-line antiepileptic drug, though its metabolism is affected by genetic polymorphisms and varies between individuals. The aim of this study was to investigate such association and to explore its influence on the occurrence of early post-traumatic seizure. METHODS A prospective cas...

The classification, occurrence, and predictors of sudden unexpected and unexplained death in individuals with epilepsy (SUDEP) have received considerable attention over the last few years. Specific criteria for the classification of definite, probable, possible, and not SUDEP implemented in United States epidemiologic studies are presented. The incidence of SUDEP in different epilepsy populatio...