Published in Epilepsy & behavior : E&B
The aim of the study was to provide an overview of the prevalence, risk factors, burden, and current and emerging pharmacologic treatments for seizure clusters in patients with epilepsy. Close to half of patients with active epilepsy experience seizure clusters, and the clinical, social, and financial burdens of seizure clusters are high. However, ...
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The aim of this study was to investigate the perspective of Norwegian patients with epilepsy regarding the information that they have received about epilepsy-related issues and to determine whether there was a difference in information received between those who had been followed up by an epilepsy specialist nurse (ESN) and those who had not. Furth...
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Inadequate or misinformation about electroencephalography (EEG) and epilepsy may lead to anxiety in children and their parents. The purpose of this study was to make a simultaneous evaluation of the anxiety levels of children and parents before EEG procedures and to make a brief assessment of their knowledge about EEG. Children aged between 8 and 1...
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Inflammation plays a pivotal role in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) pathophysiology. IL-33 can act as a transcription factor or as a cytokine, the latter through the transmembrane ST2 receptor or its soluble isoform (sST2), presenting a dual role in neurological diseases. The aim of this study was to determine the plasma levels of IL-33 and sST2 in p...
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Caring for children with developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) places substantial demands on the entire family unit, including siblings. The Sibling Voices Survey assesses parental and sibling responses to questions designed to assess how children adapt to growing up with siblings with DEE. Participants responded to 1 of 4 online, age...
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Posttraumatic epilepsy (PTE) is a common cause of drug-resistant epilepsy, especially in young adults. Nevertheless, such patients are not common candidates for intracranial presurgical evaluation. We investigated the role of stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) in defining epileptogenicity and surgical strategy in patients with PTE. We analyzed ict...
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The goal of this study was to compare the predictive ability of the Status Epilepticus Severity Score (STESS), the Encephalitis-nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE)-Diazepam resistance-Image abnormalities-Tracheal intubation (END-IT), and the combination of these two scoring tools to predict mortality among inhospital patients with status epilep...
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The objective of this study was to gain a better understanding of parental hopes and worries before and subsequent experiences two years after their child had undergone epilepsy surgery. The parents of 107 children and young people who underwent epilepsy surgery at a single center completed surveys focusing on hopes and concerns before surgery and ...
Published in Epilepsy & behavior : E&B
Published in Epilepsy & behavior : E&B
In this study, we aimed to improve our knowledge of insular epilepsy by studying anatomoelectroclinical correlations in pure insular-onset epilepsy and characterizing differences between anterior and posterior insular-onset seizures. Patients in whom seizure-onset zone was confined to the insula and peri-insular sulcus were selected from 301 consec...
