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    History of Status Epilepticus

    The earliest references to ongoing seizure activity or status epilepticus appear in cuneiform, biblical, Roman, and Medieval sources. Prior to the use of EEG, written accounts centered on the behavioral change...

    Peter W. Kaplan, Eugen Trinka in Status Epilepticus (2018)

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    Clinical Presentations of Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus

    Nonconvulsive status epilepticus represents a pleomorphic group of epileptic conditions that encompasses a wide variety of behavioral manifestations with subjective and objective components. Depending on the a...

    Peter W. Kaplan in Status Epilepticus (2018)

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    Causes, Manifestations, and Complications of Generalized Convulsive Status Epilepticus in Adults

    Generalized convulsive status epilepticus (GCSE) represents the most clinically dramatic and life-threatening type of status epilepticus, characterized either by continuous generalized tonic–clonic convulsive ...

    Raoul Sutter, Tolga D. Dittrich, Peter W. Kaplan in Status Epilepticus (2018)

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    EEG in Encephalopathy and Coma

    The EEG is a very important part of the evaluation of patients with acutely altered mental status. Many of these patients are referred from intensive care settings, and a routine initial step often involves ob...

    Mohamad Z. Koubeissi, Nabil J. Azar, Peter W. Kaplan in Epilepsy Board Review (2017)