An absence seizure, also known as a petit mal seizure, affects consciousness and can cause a temporary loss of awareness. Absence seizures are most commonly seen in children and typically involve a brief staring spell that lasts just a few seconds. The person experiencing the seizure may ...
Twitter Google Share on Facebook absence seizure (redirected fromAbsence seizures) Thesaurus Medical n. A generalized seizure marked by transient loss of consciousness and the absence of convulsions, occurring mostly in children. Also calledpetit mal seizure. ...
Responses of seizures to therapy is one of the most important prognostic factors in epilepsy. Absences are among the seizure types with a good response to antiepileptic drug treatment and, usually, remission before adult age. Absence patients attending an epilepsy clinic for adults can be expected ...
Fernández-Torre JL, Rebollo M (2009) Typical absence status epilepticus as late presentation of idiopathic generalized epilepsy in an elderly patient. ... JL Fernández-Torre,M Rebollo - 《Seizure the Journal of the British Epilepsy Association》 被引量: 18发表: 2009年 加载更多来源...
The proportion seizure free was 0.78 for patients with absence seizures (AS) only, and 0.35 for those who developed TCS. The outcome of AE may be worse than previously stated due to the considerable proportion of patients developing TCS in the course of their disease. Early prediction of ...
However, these effects were not observed during late PND (14–21) or in adulthood (7–10 weeks). Notably, AY treatment elicited paroxysmal depolarizing shift (PDS)-like epileptiform discharges during the early postnatal period, but not during late PND or in adults. The PDS-like events were ...
Demographic data and clinical information such as age of seizure onset, duration of epilepsy, antiepileptic drugs (AED) prescription and response to treatment, were collected. For group comparison, 24 volunteers were recruited to serve as healthy controls (HC). Healthy subjects had no history of ...
Twitter Google Share on Facebook absence seizure (redirected fromAbsence epilepsy) Thesaurus Medical Legal Encyclopedia absence seizure n. A generalized seizure marked by transient loss of consciousness and the absence of convulsions, occurring mostly in children. Also calledpetit mal seizure. ...
This is a narrative review of the literature which describes the electroclinical features of atypical seizures, the characteristics of developmental epileptic encephalopathies in which this seizure type can occur, and the evidence supporting the use of individual antiseizure drugs for the treatment of ...
Seizure disappearanceRecent studies suggest potential roles of immune response in the pathophysiology of epilepsy. Anti-seizure medications (ASMs) are known to have side effects of drug eruption caused by immune responses. A few reports in adults have demonstrated disappearance of seizures after an ASM...