Nonconvulsive status epilepticus in adults - Insights into the invisible

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 281-293

  Sutter, Raoul ^a   Semmlack, Saskia ^a   Kaplan, Peter W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACLOFEN; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; HARKOSERIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; KETOROLAC; LEVETIRACETAM; METHOTREXATE; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; PHENYTOIN; VALPROIC ACID;

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SAFETY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPTIC STATE; HUMAN; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MANAGED CARE; NONCONVULSIVE STATUS EPILEPTICUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADULT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; HUMANS; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 84964788957     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2016.45     Document Type: Review

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