منابع مشابه
Diagnosing idiopathic/cryptogenic epilepsy syndromes in infancy.
PURPOSE To determine the characteristics that permit diagnosis of the type of epilepsy beginning in the 1st year of life, and to determine from what age such characteristics are recognisable. PATIENTS From 430 non-selected patients who began having seizures in the 1st year of life and were referred to the neuropaediatric department of Saint Vincent de Paul Hospital, those with epileptic spasm...
متن کاملDiagnosing epilepsy in neurology clinics: A prospective study
The certainty of the initial diagnosis of epilepsy was assessed prospectively by one neurologist in outpatients. One hundred and fifty-eight consecutive referrals with loss of consciousness or possible epilepsy were seen. The relative contributions to the initial diagnosis from the referral letter, history taking in clinic, physical examination, and investigation were compared. There was a refe...
متن کاملDiagnosing and Treating Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: A Case Study
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that affects approximately 70 million people worldwide. There are several types and sub-types of epilepsy, with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy being the most common. Temporal Lobe Epilepsy is often amendable with Anti-epileptic Drugs. When these drugs do not work, surgery may alleviate seizures. In this paper 2 case studies are addressed involving patients who both h...
متن کاملComparative Analysis of Classifiers for Developing an Adaptive Computer-Assisted EEG Analysis System for Diagnosing Epilepsy
Computer-assisted analysis of electroencephalogram (EEG) has a tremendous potential to assist clinicians during the diagnosis of epilepsy. These systems are trained to classify the EEG based on the ground truth provided by the neurologists. So, there should be a mechanism in these systems, using which a system's incorrect markings can be mentioned and the system should improve its classificatio...
متن کاملDiagnosing nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy: A case study of two children
We describe two children of nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (NFLE) diagnosed using carefully observed nocturnal sleep EEGs and detailed patient histories. Case #1, a 14-year-old boy, showed repeated generalized tonic convulsions and frequent eyes opening seizures during sleep. Conventional EEGs - done with the patient awake or in sleep stage I - showed no abnormalities, while a nocturnal sleep ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0012-1622
DOI: 10.1017/s0012162206000703