Seizure clusters and adverse events during pre-surgical video-EEG monitoring with a slow anti-epileptic drug (AED) taper

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 486-488

  Di Gennaro, Giancarlo ^a   Picardi, Angelo ^b   Sparano, Antonio ^a   Mascia, Addolorata ^a   Meldolesi, Giulio N ^a,c   Grammaldo, Liliana G ^a   Esposito, Vincenzo ^a,d   Quarato, Pier P ^a  

^a IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d 'Neurone' Foundation for Research in Neuropsychobiology and Clinical Neurosciences   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adverse events; Epilepsy surgery; Seizure clusters; Video EEG monitoring

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASYSTOLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FALLING; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SEIZURE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; BENZODIAZEPINES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PATIENT SAFETY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84856235419     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.08.011     Document Type: Article

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