Value of inpatient diagnostic CCTV-EEG monitoring in the elderly

Epilepsia

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1100-1102

  Drury, Ivo ^b,d   Selwa, Linda M ^a   Schuh, Lori A ^b   Kapur, Jaideep ^a   Varma, Navin ^a   Beydoun, Ahmad ^a   Henry, Thomas R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

CCTV EEG; Elderly; Nonepileptic spells; Seizures

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEVISION CAMERA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTICONVULSANTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TELEVISION;

EID: 0032789296     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1999.tb00825.x     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. Hauser WA. Epidemiology of seizures and epilepsy in the elderly. In: Rowan AJ, Ramsay RE, eds. Seizures and epilepsy in the elderly. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997:7-18.
2. de la Court A, Breteler MMB, Meinardi H, Hauser WA, Hofman A. Prevalence of epilepsy in the elderly: the Rotterdam study. Epilepsia 1996;37:141-47.
3. Drury I, Beydoun A. Interictal epileptiform activity in elderly patients with epilepsy. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 1998; 156:369-73.
4. Tinuper P. The altered presentation of seizures in the elderly. In: Rowan AJ, Ramsay RE, eds. Seizures and epilepsy in the elderly. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997:123-7.
5. Henry TR, Drury I. Non-epileptic seizures in temporal lobectomy candidates with medically refractory seizures. Neurology 1997;48: 1374-82.
6. Lancman ME, O'Donovan C, Dinner D, Coelho M, Luders HO. Usefulness of prolonged video-EEG monitoring in the elderly. J Neurol Sci 1996;142:54-8.