Diagnosis and management of nonconvulsive status epilepticus in children

Nature Clinical Practice Neurology

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 505-516

  Korff, Christian M ^a   Nordli Jr , Douglas R ^b  

^a Children's Hospital of Geneva   (Switzerland)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN; DIAZEPAM; FOSPHENYTOIN SODIUM; LORAZEPAM; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PREDNISONE; STEROID; VALPROIC ACID;

ABSENCE; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EEG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTIC STATE; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED PERIODIC EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HUMAN; LANDAU KLEFFNER SYNDROME; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MYOCLONIC ASTATIC EPILEPSY; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NONCONVULSIVE EPILEPTIC STATE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIODIC LATERALIZED EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TONIC SEIZURE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 34548508914     PISSN: 1745834X     EISSN: 17458358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneuro0605     Document Type: Review

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