ALLMedicine™ Status Epilepticus Center

Feb 4th, 2023 - A large set of inflammatory molecules and their receptors are induced in epileptogenic foci of patients with pharmacoresistant epilepsies of structural etiologies or with refractory status epilepticus. Studies in animal models mimicking these clin...

Feb 3rd, 2023 - Proper seizure control during pregnancy and postpartum is essential to optimize the outcome of women with epilepsy (WWE). The current work aimed to address factors related to seizure occurrence during pregnancy and postpartum. One hundred twenty-f...

Feb 3rd, 2023 - New onset refractory status epilepticus (NORSE) is a devastating neurological presentation. There is a paucity of large studies on NORSE as it is a relatively new clinical syndrome. The aim of this review was to summarise the aetiologies and estab...

Feb 3rd, 2023 - Continuous electroencephalography (cEEG) is commonly used for neuromonitoring in pediatric intensive care units (PICU); however, there are barriers to real-time interpretation of EEG data. Quantitative EEG (qEEG) transforms the EEG signal into tim...

Feb 3rd, 2023 - The concept of 'developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (DEE)' recognises that in infants presenting with severe early-onset epilepsy, neurodevelopmental comorbidity may be attributable to both the underlying cause and to adverse effects of unc...

May 8th, 2021 - In children, seizures represent an extremely heterogeneous group of medical conditions ranging from benign cases, such as a simple febrile seizure, to life-threatening situations, such as status epilepticus. Underlying causes of seizures also repr...

Jan 30th, 2015 - Critical Care Continuous EEG (CCEEG) is a common procedure to monitor brain function in patients with altered mental status in intensive care units. There is significant variability in patient populations undergoing CCEEG and in technical specific...

Jan 7th, 2010 - The objective of the current article was to review the literature and discuss the degree of evidence for various treatment strategies for status epilepticus (SE) in adults. We searched MEDLINE and EMBASE for relevant literature from 1966 to Januar...

Apr 29th, 2009 - To reassess the evidence for management issues related to the care of women with epilepsy (WWE) during pregnancy, including the risk of pregnancy complications or other medical problems during pregnancy in WWE compared to other women, change in se...

Feb 2nd, 2023 - Methods: Adult ICU-patients with controlled mechanical ventilation ≥48h due to a neurological disease will be included in the intensive care unit. A predefined text - including information on the patient's condition and recurrent request to breath...

Jan 31st, 2023 - Epilepsy is a disabling and lethal neurological disease which affect 3.47 million Americans. Significant health care disparities exist in people with epilepsy (PWE). PWE are more likely to be Hispanic, Black, developmentally disabled and unemploye...

Jan 26th, 2023 - This is a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of IV ganaxolone in status epilepticus. Investigational product will be added to standard of care following failure of any two or more antiseizure med...

Jan 26th, 2023 - Study Title : Ketogenic diet for status epilepticus in infants, children and adolescents aged 6 months to 18 years immediately after cessation of convulsive status epilepticus; a randomized open labelled trial Objective of The study : To evaluate ...

Jan 19th, 2023 - In this study, the data of patients who are planned to undergo craniotomy by neurosurgery will be collected as a file scan (medical histories, drugs used, demographic features, additional diseases, ASA class, pre-operative routine parameters, oper...

Dec 9th, 2022 - NASHVILLE, Tennessee ― New research shows stark racial and ethnic discrepancies in healthcare outcomes for patients with status epilepticus (SE). Investigators found that among Black patients with SE, the hospitalization rate was twice that of the...

Sep 6th, 2022 - Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was associated with an increased dementia risk in a population-based, longitudinal study in Taiwan. (Neurology) Post-9/11 U.S. veterans with a history of traumatic brain injury (TBI) were more likely to develop ca...

Aug 31st, 2022 - Abusive head trauma in infants nearly doubled in the Paris metropolitan area during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers reported. While cases of abusive head trauma were stable in 2020 compared with years before the pandemic, ave...

Aug 31st, 2022 - Note that some links may require subscriptions. U.S. life expectancy in 2021 dropped for the second year in a row, down to 76.1 years -- the lowest level since 1996, according to a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics. The dro...

Apr 25th, 2022 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In patients with status epilepticus that is "less damaging" to the brain, a three-factor scoring system may help predict post-discharge outcomes, researchers suggest. As reported in JAMA Neurology, Dr. Christoph Beier o...