Third, antiepileptic drugs have potential cognitive adverse effects that may worsen dementia.Although few studies are available, extrapolations from research in young people and elderly patients without dementia provide several recommendations for the management of seizures in patients with dementia: exclude...
Seizures are omong the most frequent neurologicol disorders in the elderly, and show some typical characteristics in both their etiology as well as their clinical presentation or diagnosis procedure and treatment. Cerebrovascular disease is found to be the first of the causes thor most frequently prod...
1 In light of the high incidence of polypharmacy among the elderly, drug-induced seizures may be a particular risk for this population. There is a relatively high frequency of epilepsy in the elderly that is now being recognized.1 While new-onset seizures are uncommon in geriatric patients, ...
Case Report: Repeated seizures in an elderly patient with alcohol dependence and mild cognitive impairment N Ishii,T Terao,Y Araki,... 被引量: 0发表: 2013年 Cognitive impairment in methadone maintenance patients Drug and Alcohol DependenceMintzer M, Stitzer ML. Cognitive impairment in methadone ...
We conducted a review of drugs that were most commonly associated with inducing seizures in the elderly population. The method for determining the risk of these agents includes evaluating the utilisation and the percentage of adverse events in previous studies and case reports. Classes of medications...
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The EEGs of elderly patients with a definite seizure disorder (161 patients; 302 EEGs) were compared to patients with "syncope" (122 patients; 133 EEGs), especially to determine if the latter patients were sufficiently similar to the seizure patients that the syncope could be viewed as a se...
Summary: Purpose: The current understanding of epilepsy has changed significantly in the past 2 decades. This report presents a description of newly diagno... AT Berg,S Shinnar,SR Levy,... - 《Epilepsia》 被引量: 402发表: 2010年 Clinical Research : Newly Diagnosed Unprovoked Epileptic Seizure...
Less definitive cases may still be treated presumptively, particularly in infirm or elderly people in whom a seizure may pose serious health risks. Differential Diagnoses While seizures are often missed in people with Alzheimer's disease, a type of seizure, known as anabsence seizure, is sometimes...
Objective: To explore the relationship between EEG abnormalities and epileptic seizures in elderly patients with acute cerebral infarction. Methods: 74 cases of elderly patients with acute cerebral infarction and who received in our department from March,2015 to March,2016 were collected. Then,the loca...