Newly Diagnosed Hepatic Encephalopathy Presenting as Non-convulsive Status Epilepticus: A Case Report and Literature Review [PDF]
Frontiers in Neurology, 2022 BackgroundHepatic encephalopathy is characterized by psychiatric and neurological abnormalities, including epileptic seizure and non-convulsive and convulsive status epilepticus.
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Non-convulsive status epilepticus possibly induced by a rapid correction of severe hyperkalemia: a case report and literature review [PDF]
BMC Nephrology, 2023 Background Patients with chronic kidney disease frequently develop neurological complications including confusion and altered consciousness. Non-convulsive status epilepticus, which is characterized by a change in behavior and/or mental process ...
Saki Bussaka +6 more
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Non-Convulsive Status Epilepticus in Hepatic Encephalopathy: A Case Series and Review of the Literature [PDF]
European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2022 Hepatic encephalopathy is a common complication in chronic liver disease and cirrhosis. Here we describe two patients with hepatic encephalopathy who did not respond to standard empiric treatment and were found to have non-convulsive status epilepticus ...
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Non-Convulsive Status Epilepticus in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: A Prognostic Parameter [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2023 A non-convulsive status epilepticus (ncSE) is a potentially fatal complication for patients in neurointensive care. In patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), ncSE remains scarcely investigated.
Martin Vychopen +6 more
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COVID-19 masquerading as a non-convulsive status epilepticus [PDF]
International Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2022 Since the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), more and more atypical presentations of COVID-19 are being reported.
Sofie Moorthamers +3 more
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Management strategies for refractory status epilepticus [PDF]
Journal of Neurocritical Care, 2023 Refractory status epilepticus (RSE) is defined as the persistence of either clinical or electrographic seizures despite the administration of appropriate doses of an initial benzodiazepine and suitable second-line antiepileptic drugs (AEDs).
Jung-Won Shin
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Ictal catatonia associated with segmental catalepsy [PDF]
Romanian Journal of Neurology, 2020 Introduction. Non-convulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) is an epileptic condition lasting more than 30 minutes in which continuous or recurrent seizure activity on the electroencephalogram (EEG) is associated with diverse clinical symptoms including ...
A. Bruce Janati +3 more
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Epidemiology, clinic and diagnosis of status epilepticus in adults: A review
Consilium Medicum, 2023 Status epilepticus is one of the causes of impaired consciousness. Status epilepticus can develop both in patients with epilepsy and in patients without an epileptic history.
Guzel R. Gainetdinova +1 more
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Non-Convulsive Status Epilepticus following Liver Transplantation [PDF]
Korean Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2016 Neurological complications following liver transplantation are more common than after other organ transplants. These complications include seizure in about 8% of cases, which is associated with morbidity and mortality.
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BMC Pediatrics, 2022 Background In South Sudan, sleeping sickness is a frequent condition caused by human African trypanosomiasis. There are two stages that are well-known.
Etedal Ahmed A. Ibrahim +4 more
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