Abstract   Backround: The first episode of an afebrile seizure is a common cause of admission   of children to emergency departments. Alot of tests are routinely performed for these patients. The cost of such an evaluation is high and benefits are doubtful. We conducted   this study in order to evaluate the results of the tests and find out what tests are necessary for children with first unp...

In a study comparing sinusoidal wave and brief-pulse ECT in endogenous depression, seizure duration was monitored by the cuff method in 29 patients over 180 treatment sessions. Mean seizure duration across all treatments was 26.5 secs, and the mean for individual patients across their ECT course ranged from a minimum of 15.7 secs to maximum of38.5 secs. Regression analysis found no variable whi...

Systemic lupus erythematosus is a systemic autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system, either by direct neuronal damage, injury to brain vessels, or pathogenic mechanisms indirectly induced immune related production and deposition of complexes. The prevalence explicit episodes seizures among SLE patients, varies from 2 8%. In some cases, patients with positivity for antiphosphol...

PURPOSE Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is used increasingly as adjunctive therapy for refractory epilepsy. Studies of VNS in children report mainly seizure frequency reduction as a measure of efficacy and clinical details are often scanty. We report our experience with VNS in children with refractory epilepsy and emphasize the positive effects of VNS in terms of seizure severity. METHODS We re...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: there is a broad variation in reported frequencies of seizure in multiple sclerosis (ms). in this study, the seizure and its characteristics analyzed among a large group of patients with ms. materials and methods: we reviewed the medical records of all definite ms patients referred to the ms clinic of kashani h...

We investigated the correlation of interictal epileptiform discharges (IED) in routine EEG 6 and 24 months after epilepsy surgery with regard to long-term seizure outcome. In 148 patients (74% temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), 26% extratemporal epilepsy) EEG results (IED present or absent) were correlated with the postoperative outcome using the Engel classification 6 and 24 months after resection ...

OBJECTIVES To describe demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with hospital-onset seizure (HOS) and to explore current practices in their management. DESIGN Retrospective medical record review. SETTING Academic, tertiary care, private (New York University Langone Medical Center) and municipal (Bellevue Hospital Center) medical centers. PATIENTS Patients aged at least 18 year...

PURPOSE Although epilepsy surgery, especially temporal lobe epilepsy surgery, is well established to control seizures in patients remaining on antiepileptic drug (AED) treatment, less information is available about how many seizure-free surgical patients will relapse after discontinuation of AEDs under medical supervision. METHODS A literature review yielded six retrospective clinical observa...

Seizure forecasting systems hold promise for improving the quality of life for patients with epilepsy.Despite the fact that epilepsy is infrequent , the epileptic patients suffer from an constant paranoia of a seizure. Seizure forecasting systems have the potential to help patients with epilepsy lead more normal lives. In order for EEG-based seizure forecasting systems to work effectively, comp...