Severe ictal hypoxemia following focal, subclinical temporal electrographic scalp seizure activity

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 143-145

  Maglajlija, Vesela ^a   Walker, Matthew C ^a   Kovac, Stjepana ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Focal epilepsy; Hypoxemia; Hypoxia; Ictal apnea; Seizures; SUDEP; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE;

AGED; APNEA; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; ICTAL HYPOXEMIA; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NEUROMONITORING; NOCTURNAL SEIZURE; OXYGEN SATURATION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; RESTLESSNESS; SCALP; SLEEP AROUSAL DISORDER; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

AGED; ANOXIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; OXIMETRY;

EID: 84860675844     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2012.03.019     Document Type: Article

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