A temporal lobe seizure may not show up on an EEG. CT or MRI pictures may be used to check for abnormal areas. You may be given contrast liquid to help your brain show up better in the pictures. Tell the healthcare provider if you have ever had an allergic reaction to contrast liquid...
9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook focal seizure (redirected fromFocal seizures) Thesaurus Medical Encyclopedia Wikipedia Related to Focal seizures:status epilepticus n. Seepartial seizure. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth ...
we addressed this issue in a 40 year-old woman with drug-resistant focal epilepsy monitored by presurgical intracranial EEG.As a part of this routine pre-operative investigation,anti-seizure medications(ASMs)were halted;as a result,multiple withdrawal seizures were recorded before ASM readministration...
A study on aetiological profile of seizures in a Tertiary Care Centre Focal seizures are well described in SME although the mechanism by which the measles virus induces epileptogenicity is not clear. Silent casualties from the measles outbreak in South Africa In present study, simple febrile seizure...
further heal him. It has been so nice to have the support from Lynn that we didn’t get from his neurologist. She is there to answer any questions I have and to cheer you on when it seems like no one else is. It has been so helpful to not have to figure it out all on my ...
We monitored frontopolar EEG for 7 days of treatment. Although we did not observe recurrent episodes of ESz during the study period, they could have recurred after the studied period. Finally, we noted a significant improvement of SrO2 following ESz suppression; however, the increase in SrO2...
based on seizure characteristics and eeg pattern typical: sudden onset, brief duration with characteristic eeg atypical: insidious onset and resolution of symptoms with slower eeg pattern diagnosis:classic 3-hz spike-and-wave discharges treatment: anticonvulsant medication eeg showing interictal spikes and...
The two groups could not be clearly distinguished on the basis of MRI data although temporal pole MRI abnormalities were somewhat more common in the TP group. Therefore, the apparently homogenous syndrome of mesio-temporal lobe epilepsy appears to cover two different...
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Status epilepticus in the other- wise "healthy" neonatal brain does not cause neuropathologic injury. However, seizures superimposed on HI significantly ex- acerbate brain injury in a topographically specific manner. (Pediatr Res 50: 445–454, 2001) Abbreviations KA, kainic acid HI, hypoxia-...