Centromedian thalamic nuclei deep brain stimulation in refractory status epilepticus

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 594-598

  Valentín, Antonio ^a,b   Nguyen, Huy Q ^c   Skupenova, Alena M ^b   Agirre Arrizubieta, Zaloa ^d   Jewell, Sharon ^b   Mullatti, Nandini ^b   Moran, Nicholas F ^b,d   Richardson, Mark P ^a   Selway, Richard P ^b   Alarcón, Gonzalo ^a,b,e  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d KENT AND CANTERBURY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

centromedian thalamus; deep brain stimulation; electrical stimulation; epilepsy treatment; refractory status epilepticus; seizures

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CLONAZEPAM; ETIRACETAM; FLUCONAZOLE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LORAZEPAM; MEROPENEM; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; THIOPENTAL; TOPIRAMATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CENTROMEDIAN THALAMIC NUCLEI; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEVER; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEADACHE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCLONUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PHOTOPHOBIA; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY STATUS EPILEPTICUS; REMISSION; RESUSCITATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADULT; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; HUMANS; INTRALAMINAR THALAMIC NUCLEI; MALE; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84867576883     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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