Articles Tagged With: Seizures
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Witness Observations in Diagnosing Transient Loss of Consciousness
These investigators found that adding witness-reported observations to patient demographics and patient-reported symptoms improved the diagnostic accuracy between epilepsy, syncope, and psychogenic nonepileptic seizures.
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Adenovirus and CNS Disease in Children
Forty-eight immunocompetent children with adenovirus-associated central nervous system disease were described. Thirty-eight percent of patients died or experienced permanent neurologic sequelae.
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Rotavirus Vaccine and Hospitalization for Seizures
In an analysis of insurance claims for 1.8 million U.S. children with 2,950 recorded seizures, researchers found that the risk of hospitalization for seizures was 24% lower in rotavirus-vaccinated children.
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Utility of Ictal Magnetoencephalography for Identifying Seizure Onset Zone
In a review of 377 magnetoencephalography (MEG) studies in epilepsy patients undergoing presurgical workup, 44 patients were found to have one or more seizures during routine recordings, lasting up to a mean of 51.2 minutes. Ictal MEG provided unique localizing data in about one-third of patients. For patients with frequent seizures or reliably induced seizures, MEG may be a useful supplemental tool for medically refractory epilepsy patients undergoing presurgical evaluation.
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Adverse Reactions to Cannabis and Cannabinoids
Understanding the potential reactions that can occur from cannabis and synthetic cannabinoids can help emergency physicians recognize these effects in patients who may present to the emergency department.
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Which Is Better for Nonconvulsive Seizures: Lacosamide or Fosphenytoin?
Intravenous lacosamide was found to be noninferior to fosphenytoin in the treatment of nonconvulsive seizures in a prospective, multicenter, randomized clinical trial.
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Cannabidiol for Pediatric Seizures
Three months of cannabidiol-enriched cannabis extract decreased mean monthly seizure frequency in children and young adults with refractory epilepsy.
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Cannabidiol: Does It Help in Drug-resistant Epileptic Encephalopathies?
In this double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, the authors investigated the efficacy of adjunctive cannabidiol in a population of severe developmental epileptic encephalopathies and found some efficacy.
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What Are the Early Predictors for Post-traumatic Epilepsy After Injury?
Following traumatic brain injury, early (first five days after injury) epileptiform abnormalities on EEG were seen more commonly in patients with subsequent post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE), compared to controls, and were found to be a significant and independent predictor of PTE. The presence of subdural hemorrhage was the only other independent predictor of PTE.
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Pitfalls in the Treatment of Seizures Associated With Brain Tumors
In this multicenter, observational study, the authors assessed the prevalence of neuropsychiatric side effects from medications in subjects with tumor-related epilepsy. Levetiracetam was found to have the highest prevalence of such side effects.