ALLMedicine™ Neonatal Seizures Center

Dec 1st, 2021 - Seizures are the abnormal, excessive, synchronous discharge of cortical neurons that results in injury to the brain. Seizures presenting in the neonatal period may be the first and only clue to underlying neurological pathology. Despite advances i...

Nov 26th, 2021 - To assess the potential risk of developing epilepsy in preterm newborns with neonatal seizures (NS). Two electronic databases (PubMed and Web of Sciences) were searched from inception to December 2020. Studies that investigated the outcome of epil...

Nov 24th, 2021 - Very preterm/very low birth weight (VP/VLBW) newborns can have lifelong morbidities, as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Clinicians have no markers to discriminate which among those individuals will develop later ADHD, based only o...

Nov 16th, 2021 - Safety of Early Discontinuation of Antiseizure Medication After Acute Symptomatic Neonatal Seizures-Reply.|2021|Glass HC,Shellhaas RA,|

Nov 16th, 2021 - Safety of Early Discontinuation of Antiseizure Medication After Acute Symptomatic Neonatal Seizures.|2021|Crawford J,Gold J,Haas R,|

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...

Oct 12th, 2021 - The occurrence of neonatal seizures may be the first, and perhaps the only, clinical sign of a central nervous system disorder in the newborn infant. The promoted treatment of seizures can limit the secondary injury to the brain and positively aff...

Jun 24th, 2021 - Neonatal seizures due to brain injury (acute symptomatic seizures) are associated with high risk of neurodevelopmental disability in infancy. Although prognosis in early childhood is a critical question for parents and providers, outcomes beyond i...

Mar 9th, 2021 - This project aims to improve the treatment of neonatal seizures. Current treatments are poorly effective and have significant side effects. Levetiracetam has great potential as a treatment for neonatal seizures but is not approved for use in child...

Dec 17th, 2020 - Seizures occur more often during the newborn period (2-3.5 per 1000 live births) than at any later age. Neonatal seizures can lead to frequent and serious long-term consequences in survivors, such as later epilepsy and significant cognitive and mo...

Mar 26th, 2020 - In adults, drug clearance is less than half of the glomerular filtration rate and the drug half-life is 6-8 hours. Renal function in infants at birth is characterized by immature glomerular filtration and is only 20% that of older children. The sp...

Jun 2nd, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For most newborns with acute symptomatic seizures, doctors can safely stop antiseizure medications before hospital discharge, without worse neurodevelopmental outcomes or increased risk of epilepsy, a new study suggests...

Mar 1st, 2021 - (Reuters Health) - Infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) may have shorter hospital stays and spend less time on morphine when they receive phenobarbital as secondary therapy, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers examined data on 56...

Oct 28th, 2020 - Maintaining antiseizure medication in infants who have had acute symptomatic neonatal seizures has been standard practice, but a prospective, observational, comparative effectiveness study calls that practice into question, providing evidence that...

Oct 27th, 2020 - Maintaining antiseizure medication in infants who have had acute symptomatic neonatal seizures has been standard practice, but a prospective, observational, comparative effectiveness study calls that practice into question, providing evidence that.

Nov 5th, 2018 - CHICAGO—Use of rapid sequence MRI in the evaluation of neonates with seizures and no hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is associated with reduced number of CT and MRI scans and similar length of hospital stay and cost, according to a study pre.