PURPOSE To assess and compare peak, multimodal ictal vital signs (iVS) during epileptic seizures (ES) and psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES). METHODS Between 4/1/2010 and 4/1/2011, 183 adults had video-EEG monitoring, with 96 consecutive patients meeting inclusion criteria. Heart rate (HR), oxygen saturation (SaO2), and blood pressure (BP) were obtained at baseline and during an ictus. ...

Ictal asystole (IA) is uncommonly diagnosed and has been implicated as a potential cause of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy. Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy is an increasingly recognizable condition and is more likely to occur in patients with medically intractable epilepsy and those suffering from convulsive epilepsy. We report 2 cases of recent onset of prolonged syncope and unreveali...

Since its introduction in early 1950s, electroencephalography (EEG) has been widely used in the neonatal intensive care units (NICU) for assessment and monitoring of brain function in preterm and term babies. Most common indications are the diagnosis of epileptic seizures, assessment of brain maturity, and recovery from hypoxic-ischemic events. EEG recording techniques and the understanding of ...

In epilepsy of childhood, diagnosis of a focal origin is crucial for therapeutical decisions. As a noninvasive method, MEG may supplement the information obtained during EEG video monitoring. Since MEG provides a higher sensitivity for interictal events, the task of source modeling is manifold: a) localize potential irritative onset zones in MEG; b) localize interictal onset and propagation in ...

conclusions definite diagnosis of pnea not only reduces significantly unnecessary use of aeds (p = 0.001) and psychotropic drugs, but also increases patients’ productivity and emotional wellbeing. in addition, it leads them to accept diagnosis and follow appropriate treatment. objectives the aim of this study is to investigate occurrence of pnea in patients admitted to the razavi epilepsy depar...

One of the problems solved by analyzing data long-term Video EEG monitoring is differentiation epileptic and artifact events. For this, not only multichannel signals are used, but also video analysis, since traditional methods based on analysis wavelet spectrograms cannot reliably distinguish an seizure from a chewing artifact. In this paper, we propose algorithm for detecting events joint leve...