Seizures and epilepsy in elderly patients of an urban area of Iran: Clinical manifestation, differential diagnosis, etiology, and epilepsy subtypes

Neurological Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1441-1446

  Tabatabaei, Sayed Shahaboddin ^a   Delbari, Ahmad ^b,c   Salman Roghani, Reza ^a   Shahgholi, Leili ^d   Fadayevatan, Reza ^a   Mokhber, Naghmeh ^e   Lokk, Johan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND REHABILITATION SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c SABZEVAR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^e MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Clinical aspects; Elderly; Epilepsy; Iran; Seizure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALERTNESS; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; AUTOMATISM; BRAIN INFECTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FAINTNESS; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOXIA; INJURY; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; PREVALENCE; SEIZURE; SIMPLE PARTIAL SEIZURE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TRANSIENT GLOBAL AMNESIA; URBAN AREA; UREMIA;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEIZURES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84883170718     PISSN: 15901874     EISSN: 15903478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-012-1261-0     Document Type: Article

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