Electrical status epilepticus in sleep: Clinical presentation and pathophysiology

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 390-410

  Sánchez Fernández, Iván ^a,b   Loddenkemper, Tobias ^a   Peters, Jurriaan M ^a   Kothare, Sanjeev V ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; CLONAZEPAM; CORTICOSTEROID; DIAZEPAM; ETHOSUXIMIDE; ETIRACETAM; LAMOTRIGINE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

BRAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; EEG ABNORMALITY; ELECTRICAL STATUS EPILEPTICUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTIC STATE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FUNCTIONAL DISSOCIATION; GENE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; LANDAU KLEFFNER SYNDROME; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROTRANSMISSION; ONSET AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANAYIOTOPOULOS SYNDROME; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RELAPSE; REVIEW; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; SLEEP; SLEEP SPINDLE; SPIKE WAVE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

BRAIN; BRAIN WAVES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; SEIZURES; SLEEP; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 84868522361     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: 18735150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2012.06.016     Document Type: Review

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