Convulsive disorders identify by episodes of abnormal, excessive and synchronous neural activity in the brain, with cortical origin. These discharges are temporary and self-limiting, usually lasting from a few seconds to a few minutes. It can be recognized on EEG as overt abnormal electrical activity. Epilepsy is considered as a diagnosis when a patient experiences 2 episodes of seizure in 24 h...

I read with interest the article by Benbir et al. The paper of the authors seems to change the knowledge about seizure and Vitamin B12 deficiency (VBD). In that paper, three infants with VBD were reported because of seizures following the initiation of intramuscular Vitamin B12 treatment. VBD may cause the involuntary movements (IM) and seizures. The IM can be commonly confused with seizure. I ...

PURPOSE The aim of our study was to test the efficacy of the VARIA system (video, accelerometry, and radar-induced activity recording) and validation of accelerometry-based detection algorithms for nocturnal tonic-clonic and clonic seizures developed by our team. METHODS We present the results of two patients with tonic-clonic and clonic seizures, measured for about one month in a home enviro...

Abstract Background/Introduction One of the most common complications encountered during transradial procedures is radial artery (RA) spasm, whereas its management remains a challenge. Purpose We hypothesized that in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization via RA, use transdermal nitroglycerin (NTG) patches applied to skin over RA puncture site may prevent occurrence spasm. Methods NURSE-TT...

BACKGROUND The aim was to elucidate clinical trial efficacy, safety, and dosing practices of abobotulinumtoxinA (ABO) treatment in adult patients with blepharospasm and hemifacial spasm. To date, most literature reviews for blepharospasm and hemifacial spasm have examined the effectiveness of all botulinum neurotoxin type A products as a class. However, differences in dosing units and recommend...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to apply a real-time algorithm for clonic neonatal seizures detection, based on a low complexity image processing approach extracting the differential average luminance from videotaped body movements. METHODS 23 video-EEGs from 12 patients containing 78 electrographically confirmed neonatal seizures of clonic type were reviewed and all movements were divided...

Native coronary artery spasm after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is scarce. It frequently causes disastrous circulatory collapse. We report a 72-yr-old male, who experienced native coronary artery spasm and grafted artery spasm following CABG, which was successfully treated with coronary angiography and intracoronary injection of nitroglycerine.

Catheter-induced spasm of the left main coronary artery is rare during catheterization. We present several cases in which the occurrence of both ostial left main and right coronary spasm suggests that multiple sites of spasm may be a clue to this important diagnosis.