AIM We wanted to determine whether adult patients presenting with a seizure to the emergency department (ED) of Wellington Hospital and Hutt Hospital, in the Wellington region, were equally likely to be referred for neurology input. METHODS A retrospective review was conducted of 250 consecutive patients presenting with a seizure to the ED of each hospital. Patient electronic records were exa...

how to cite this article: asadi-pooya aa, emami m. is interictal eeg correlated with the seizure type in idiopathic (genetic) generalized epilepsies? iran j child neurol 2012;6(2): 25-28.   objective we investigated the correlation between different interictal eeg abnormalities observed in patients with idiopathic (genetic) generalized epilepsies (iges) and their seizure types. material & metho...

Commentary Efforts to predict impending seizures before they actually occur have been the focus of extensive lines of research over decades. Successful seizure prediction would offer the possibility of immediate treatment to preempt the seizure, as well as to provide an opportunity for the patient to take precautionary measures and reduce risk. There is even evidence that simply reducing the un...

  Background: This study compares the clinical characteristics of patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis (mTLE-HS) with those who have temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) due to other etiologies.   Methods : In this retrospective study all patients with a clinical diagnosis of TLE were recruited in a referral outpatient epilepsy clinic at Shiraz University of Medical Sc...

tramadol is used in treatment of moderate to severe pain. nowadays tramadol overdose is one of the common emergencies. naloxone is an antagonist which is used as a first step of treatment in these patients. this study was designed to evaluate the seizurogenic effects of naloxone in tramadol overdose. a number of 124 patients with the diagnosis of tramadol overdose were divided to receive low-do...

Let g ∈ Q be not −1 or a square. Let Pg denote the set of primes p such that g is a primitive root mod p. Let 1 ≤ a ≤ f, (a, f) = 1. Under the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis (GRH) it can be shown that the set of primes p ∈ Pg with p ≡ a(mod f) has a natural density. In this note this density is explicitly evaluated. This generalizes a classical result of Hooley.

OBJECTIVES To examine the degree and frequency of reductions in hippocampal volume in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy with and without a history of febrile seizures. METHODS In vivo measures of hippocampal volume were computed from three dimensional gradient echo (FLASH) images in 44 patients undergoing comprehensive evaluations for epilepsy surgery. Twenty one patients (48%) reported a ...

OBJECTIVE To identify the rate of successful antiepileptic drug (AED) withdrawal after resective surgery and the predictors of postwithdrawal seizure recurrence in patients with extratemporal epilepsy. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed the postoperative AED profile of 106 consecutive patients who had completed 2 or more years after resections involving frontal, parietal, and occipital lobes...

Since almost 20 y it is known that seizures may trigger Takotsubo syndrome (TTS). Since then it has been repeatedly proposed that TTS could be the cause of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). A review of the so far reported cases of seizure-triggered TTS was carried out to see how often seizure-triggered TTS is fatal. Altogether 59 papers were identified which reported altogether 74 pa...