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Seizures

Neurologic Clinics, 1993
Alcohol-related seizures have been recognized since the time of Hippocrates. Most such seizures are related to acute abstinence from chronic, high doses of alcohol use. Increasing use of illicit drugs, especially cocaine, has dramatically increased the incidence of acute drug-toxicity-related seizures.
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Do seizures beget seizures?

2002
There have been suggestions that seizures in some way modify brain function and that each seizure increases the risk for further seizures. Reports thus far on this phenomenon have been flawed because of inappropriate study design. We have evaluated the risk for seizure recurrence following a first unprovoked seizure in a cohort identified at their ...
Ju R Lee, W. Allen Hauser
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Seizure disorders

Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 2004
The diagnosis and management of patients with epilepsy is often undertaken by pediatricians, internists, and geriatricians (primary care physicians [PCPs]). Although referral to a neurologist may be necessary if the diagnosis of epilepsy is unclear or if the patient does not respond to initial therapy with antiepileptic drugs, PCPs may subsequently ...
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Sensory seizure mimicking a psychogenic seizure

Neurology, 1983
A patient had episodes of bilateral paresthesias with retained consciousness. The attacks were clinically considered to be psychogenic seizures. Electroencephalography indicated that the attacks were epileptic, perhaps originating from the second sensory area. Electroencephalographic recording of a seizure is essential in differentiating epileptic from
John P. Conomy   +4 more
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Incidence, prevalence and aetiology of seizures and epilepsy in children.

Epileptic disorders, 2015
AIM To (1) summarize published, peer-reviewed literature about the incidence and prevalence of epilepsy in children from developed and developing countries around the world, and (2) discuss problems in defining aetiologies of epilepsy in children, and ...
P. Camfield, C. Camfield
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Seizures

2012
Seizures can be a clinical presentation of acute stroke or complicate the clinical course of patients with stroke. Post-stroke seizures are significantly more common in patients with cortical involvement, severe and large size stroke and those with cortical hemorrhagic transformation of ischemic stroke.
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Seizures

2014
Concussion rarely causes recurrent seizures. A patient with a brief seizure that occurs within the first 30 minutes of concussion does not need to be treated with antiepileptics or have driving restrictions. However, a seizure occurring later than 30 minutes after the injury, a seizure that lasts more than one minute, or a seizure after concussion in a
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Friction seizure and galling seizure

Wear, 1973
Abstract Two different factors, not clearly distinguished in the literature, cause sliding surfaces to seize. Friction seizure occurs when the driving member provides insufficient force to overcome frictional resistance, and no permanent surface damage occurs.
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Seizures and Seizure Care in an Emergency Department

Epilepsia, 1989
Summary: We evaluated the nature and significance of seizure problems in an emergency department (ED) by studying seizures in an urban community hospital. In 6 months, there were 29,131 ED visits; of these, 200 (0.7%) were for diagnosed seizures. Among these 200 seizure visits, were 69 (34.5%) new‐onset seizures, 30 (15%) febrile seizures, and 92 (46%)
Suezanne T. Orr   +3 more
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Multicenter pilot treatment trial for psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: a randomized clinical trial.

JAMA psychiatry, 2014
IMPORTANCE There is a paucity of controlled treatment trials for the treatment of conversion disorder, seizures type, also known as psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES).
W. LaFrance   +13 more
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