normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: epilepsy is the second most common type of chronic neurological disease. its diagnosis carries an excess mortality, which is 2-3 times higher than that of general population. mortality rates are increased among patients with uncontrolled seizures . the aim of this study was to characterize the electrocardiogram (ecg) changes during pre-i...

Rolandic epilepsy is frequent in children but seizures are rarely seen by the physician or captured by video-EEG monitoring. In most children the attacks are few and sporadic and generally occur at night. Also, a high percentage of children with benign epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes (BECTS) have characteristic centro-temporal spikes based on routine EEG monitoring and therefore do not req...

OBJECTIVE To present a case of intractable cryptogenic gelastic epilepsy with ictal video-EEG to localize the seizure focus. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 39-year-old female presented with a 2-year history of intractable gelastic epilepsy characterized by recurrent episodes of stereotyped pathological laughter, transient unresponsiveness, automatisms and brief postictal confusion. ...

PURPOSE We set out to determine clinical and EEG features of seizures presenting with falls, epileptic drop attacks and atonia in the video EEG monitoring unit. METHODS We searched the video EEG monitoring reports over a 5-year-period for the terms "drop", "fall" and "atonic". RESULTS Seizures presenting as epileptic drop attacks, falls or atonia were found in 23/1112 (2%) admissions. About...