Adult tonic-clonic convulsive status epilepticus over the last 11 years in a resource-poor country: A tertiary referral centre study from southern Thailand

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 255-261

  Phabphal, Kanitpong ^a   Geater, Alan ^a   Limapichart, Kitti ^a   Sathirapanya, Pornchai ^a   Setthawatcharawanich, Suwanna ^a  

^a PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Adult; Convulsive status epilepticus; Encephalitis; Resource poor; Thailand

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM; ETIRACETAM; KETAMINE; MIDAZOLAM; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PROPOFOL; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; CYSTICERCOSIS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE DURATION; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; INTOXICATION; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METABOLIC DISORDER; MORTALITY; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEPSIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THAILAND; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICONVULSANTS; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; THAILAND; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84884684895     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: 19506945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/epd.2013.0604     Document Type: Article

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