Is a first acute symptomatic seizure epilepsy? Mortality and risk for recurrent seizure

Summary Purpose: To compare mortality and subsequent unprovoked seizure risk in a population‐based study of acute symptomatic seizure and first unprovoked seizure due to static brain lesions. Methods: We ascertained all first episodes of acute symptomatic seizure and unprovoked seizure due to cent...

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Published in:	Epilepsia (Copenhagen) Vol. 50; no. 5; pp. 1102 - 1108
Main Authors:	Hesdorffer, Dale C., Benn, Emma K. T., Cascino, Gregory D., Hauser, W. Allen
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.05.2009 Wiley-Blackwell
Subjects:	Acute Disease Acute symptomatic seizure Adolescent Adult Age of Onset Aged Anticonvulsants. Antiepileptics. Antiparkinson agents Biological and medical sciences Central Nervous System Diseases - complications Chi-Square Distribution Child Child, Preschool Epidemiology Epilepsy Epilepsy - epidemiology Epilepsy - etiology Epilepsy - mortality Female Headache. Facial pains. Syncopes. Epilepsia. Intracranial hypertension. Brain oedema. Cerebral palsy Humans Infant Infant, Newborn Male Medical sciences Middle Aged Minnesota - epidemiology Mortality Nervous system (semeiology, syndromes) Neurology Neuropharmacology Pharmacology. Drug treatments Recurrence Risk Factors Seizure recurrence Seizures - classification Seizures - epidemiology Seizures - etiology Seizures - mortality Time Factors Young Adult Minnesota Recurrence Nervous system diseases Epilepsy Mortality Recurrent Epidemiology Cerebral disorder Seizure recurrence Convulsion Acute symptomatic seizure Central nervous system disease Risk factor Neurological disorder
ISSN:	0013-9580, 1528-1167, 1528-1167
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